[Python-Dev] Decimal <-> float comparisons in py3k. (original) (raw)
Raymond Hettinger raymond.hettinger at gmail.com
Wed Mar 17 02:27:01 CET 2010
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On Mar 16, 2010, at 3:16 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:
Seems to me that this education would mostly consist of saying "don't compare floats and decimals", which is why I think that disallowing them in the first place would be better.
That makes sense.
I do worry that 2.x currently does make the comparison and gives the wrong answer. We have the ability to make it a correct answer. But, it seems like the mood here is that wrong-is-better-than-right for an action that someone shouldn't be doing in the first place.
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