[issue23975] numbers.Rational implements __float__ incorrectly
Paul Moore
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Mon Apr 20 14:50:26 CEST 2015
Paul Moore added the comment:
Is it not reasonable to simply say that implementations of numbers.Rational which allow the numerator and denominator to have types for which true division doesn't return a float, have to provide their own implementation of __float__()?
It's certainly less convenient, and probably surprising for users, but the alternative is trying to work around broken integer types - after all numbers.Complex.__truediv__ says "Should promote to float when necessary" in the docstring, which to me says that a type where a/b doesn't return a float doesn't conform to the numeric tower.
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nosy: +paul.moore
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