[Python-Dev] Mixing float and Decimal -- thread reboot (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon Mar 22 23:19:35 CET 2010


Raymond Hettinger wrote:

* The coercion logic for comparisons won't match the coercion logic for arithmetic operations. The former strives to be exact and to be consistent with hashing while the latter goes in the opposite direction.

Although Guido pointed out that float/long comparisons and coercions blazed the trail on this particular discrepancy years ago.

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia



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