On 23/09/2014 18:43, blindanagram wrote:
On 23/09/2014 18:26, Stefan Behnel wrote:
Wolfgang Maier schrieb am 23.09.2014 um 18:38:
While at first I thought this to be a rather irrelevant debate over module
private vs public naming conventions, I now think the OP is probably right
and renaming fractions.gcd to fractions._gcd may be a good idea.
For negative numbers, the "expected" behaviour seems to be unclear, so the
current behaviour is just as good as any, so backwards compatibility
concerns clearly win this fight.
The expected behaviour is not unclear for anyone who takes the
mathematical properties of the GCD seriously. It's a shame that Python
doesn't.
All you need do is raise an issue on the bug tracker, provide a patch to
code, test and docs and the job is done.
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