[issue7389] Make decimal floating point be default, remove binary floating point

2009-11-24 Thread Mark Dickinson
Mark Dickinson added the comment: I think the bug tracker is the wrong place to discuss such a wide- ranging and (currently) ill-specified change. The python-list or python-ideas mailing lists might be better places. Decimal in the core is out of the question for Python 3.2, thanks to PEP 30

[issue7389] Make decimal floating point be default, remove binary floating point

2009-11-24 Thread Retro
New submission from Retro : The Python interpreter should have the decimal type built into its core. The mechanism for dealing with decimal numbers should be handled by the decimal type and not by the processor which spits binary floats. The time is now. But ask yourself these questions: Is this