[Python-Dev] PEP 3144 review. (original) (raw)

Daniel Stutzbach daniel at stutzbachenterprises.com
Mon Sep 28 23:37:38 CEST 2009


On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:29 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de>wrote:

I guess a close case would be rational numbers: clearly, 3÷2 == 6÷4; would a Python library still remember (and repr) the original numerator and denominator?

No need for a hypothetical, rational numbers were added in Python 2.6:

Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, Apr 15 2009, 07:20:39) [GCC 3.4.4 (cygming special, gdc 0.12, using dmd 0.125)] on cygwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

import fractions fractions.Fraction(6,4) Fraction(3, 2)

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