> But you haven't made the case for generic string prefixes or any sort > of "arbitrary literal" that would let you import something that > registers something to make your float32 literals.
The case can be made as follows: different people use different parts of the Python language. Andrew would love to see the support for decimals, fractions and float32s (possibly float16s too, and maybe even posit numbers). Myself, I miss datetime and regular expression literals. Other people on the 2013 thread argued at length in favor of supporting sql-literals, which would allow them to be used in a much safer manner. Then there are those who want to write complex numbers in a natural fashion, but they already got their wish granted. In short, the needs vary, and not all of the functionality belongs to the python standard library either. _______________________________________________ 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/YBL6FQIN35VJ3FMJO6RWOQT5GGFJ6RCU/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
