Andrew Barnert wrote:
Except that it doesn’t allow that. Using Decimal doesn’t preserve the difference between 1.0000E+3 and 1000.0, or between +12 and 12.
That's true. But it does preserve everything that's important for interpreting it as a numerical value without losing any precision, which I think is enough of an improvement to recommend having it as an option. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/MPIFT2SW3V5FQPMQCIYKHWWFOVMEAACA/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/