[Python-Dev] Rounding Decimals (original) (raw)

Jeffrey Yasskin jyasskin at gmail.com
Mon Jan 7 03:03:01 CET 2008

On Jan 6, 2008 5:13 PM, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:

FWIW, I don't think all of these patches are helpful. The implementations are so easy and the effects are so obvious, that it is simply better to decide what to do first, then do it afterwards.

My own preference is to leave the decimal module alone (except for a round method to be called by builtin.round).

You must mean trunc to support builtin.trunc(), since builtin.round no longer calls round in 2.6. The other 3 methods specified by PEP 3141 aren't strictly necessary for 2.6, but they will be needed for 3.0. I'd rather not make the two versions of Decimal gratuitously different, so this patch puts them in the 2.6 version too. That's basically all of the changes in this patch, so I'm not sure exactly what you're objecting to. Could you be more precise?

-- Namasté, Jeffrey Yasskin

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