John Millikin wrote: > On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Robert Brewer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Re: Representation of Fractional Numbers, there are two solutions. If you > > return decimals, people using JS on the other end are going to call > > float(d). > > If you return floats, people not using JS on the other end are going to go > > use a different library. I suggest the former is more acceptable than the > > latter for a stdlib offering. Allowing the caller of parse() to choose > > would be even better. > > I don't understand what you mean, here. generate ([decimal.Decimal ('1.1')]) > -> '[1.1]', so a JavaScript user calling eval() on it would get a standard > JavaScript float object without having to call float() explicitly.
Sorry, I wasn't describing what anyone would do in Javascript. Pythonistas receiving JSON numbers from a JS *sender*, who want Python floats, can call float(d) if they like if you hand them a Decimal object. Annoying but easy. People receiving JSON numbers from, say, a Python sender, can't call Decimal(f) if you hand them a float instance, at least not reliably. So they'll either go use some other jsonlib (bad) or start passing numbers in strings (worse). Robert Brewr [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list Web-SIG@python.org Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com