On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 11:55 PM Christopher Barker <python...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, maybe not "Decimal", but it IS, in fact decimal -- i.e. base 10 -- > it can only exactly represent values that can be exactly represented in > base 10. > Which is why, performance aside, it would be better if a JSON number > mapped to a Python Decimal, rather than a float.Which I'd still like to see > happen, at least optionally. > I strongly agree. simplejson has `use_decimal=True`, which is straightforward. The standard library would require users painfully define their own subclasses of JSONEncoder and JSONDecoder that have the desired Decimal behavior (passing in the `cls=` argument to use the custom classes). It's doable, but it should *just work* with a switch instead. -- The dead increasingly dominate and strangle both the living and the not-yet born. Vampiric capital and undead corporate persons abuse the lives and control the thoughts of homo faber. Ideas, once born, become abortifacients against new conceptions.
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