[Python-Dev] FP vs. tutorial (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@digicool.com
Mon, 21 May 2001 16:35:10 -0400

> Or maybe the full story can be an appendix.

Or maybe Decimal should go in the standard distribution? What kind of deadline do I have for finishing that to go into 2.2?

Adding Decimal to the distribution is fine. But using it by default for floating point literals and other floating point results is a different story. The PEP about that hasn't really been discussed enough to make a decision, but a conservative estimate is that this change won't be made in 2.2. So Decimal doesn't solve the problem the tutorial has.

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