[Python-Dev] Changes to PEP 327: Decimal data type

[Oren Tirosh]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 11:01:12PM -0300, Batista, Facundo wrote:
> People:
> 
> I'll post a reviewed version of the PEP.
> 
> The only differences with the previous one will be the treatmen to float in
> both explicit and implicit construction:
> 
> ------------
> 
> In Explicit construction:
> 
> You can not call Decimal with a float. Instead you must use a method:
> Decimal.fromFloat(). The syntax:
> 
>     Decimal.fromFloat(floatNumber, positions)

+1 on the behavior. One nitpick about the method name: this caseConvention 
is not consistent with the Python Style Guide (PEP 8)

  Oren