[Python-3000] Extension: mpf for GNU MP floating point (original) (raw)

Facundo Batista facundobatista at gmail.com
Sun Sep 30 16:32:38 CEST 2007

2007/9/28, Rob Crowther <weilawei at gmail.com>:

a) MPF() now takes a float or integer argument because mpfsetstr is just

Rob, there has been a lot of discussion about this for Decimal (see the PEP and discussions in python-dev and python-list around the PEP date).

The main issue here is what means the user if he calls MPF(2.3):

a) MPF("2.3")

b) MPF("2.2999999999999998")

The difficult of the choice is that a) is maybe what she expects, b) is the value value (so why not to think she expects the real value?)

Regards,

-- . Facundo