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Message62011

Author rhettinger
Recipients facundobatista, gvanrossum, jyasskin, mark.dickinson, rhettinger
Date 2008-02-02.21:17:20
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Message-id 1201987042.43.0.205292995935.issue1682@psf.upfronthosting.co.za
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The rational constructor should accept decimals directly. Rational(Decimal('3.1')) does not suffer the same representation error problems as Rational(float('3.1')). The conversion from decimal is lossless and does not depend on the decimal context. There is no need for a separate constructor.
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2008-02-02 21:17:22 rhettinger set spambayes_score: 0.48309 -> 0.48308972recipients: + rhettinger, gvanrossum, facundobatista, mark.dickinson, jyasskin
2008-02-02 21:17:22 rhettinger set spambayes_score: 0.48309 -> 0.48309messageid: 1201987042.43.0.205292995935.issue1682@psf.upfronthosting.co.za
2008-02-02 21:17:21 rhettinger link issue1682 messages
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