[Python-Dev] Return type of round, floor, and ceil in 2.6 (original) (raw)

Mark Dickinson dickinsm at gmail.com
Fri Jan 4 17:24:52 CET 2008


On Jan 4, 2008 11:14 AM, Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin at gmail.com> wrote:

On Jan 4, 2008 4:40 AM, Facundo Batista <facundobatista at gmail.com> wrote: > Do you mean that the response in the following case is of type "float"?: > > >>> round(decimal.Decimal("2.5")) > 3.0

Yes.

That seems a little peculiar to me: wouldn't it be more natural to have round(Decimal_instance) return another Decimal?

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