[Python-Dev] Be Honest about LC_NUMERIC [REPOST] (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Sep 1 02:36:32 EDT 2003

That said, I don't actually require that the code is written from scratch. Instead, a detailed elaboration of how precisely the implementation is approached, in the PEP, would be good.

The PEP should also point out deficiencies of the approach taken, e.g. the issue of spelling NaN, inf, etc. If it can be determined not to be an issue in real life (i.e. for all interesting platforms), this should be documented as well.

I think that anything that might still be needed years after the code is adopted should be in comments in the code, not in a PEP.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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