[Python-Dev] Example for PEP 343

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Wed May 18 04:38:25 CEST 2005


On May 17, 2005, at 10:36 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> On 5/17/05, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:
>
>>> I think you're missing a decimal.setcontext(newcontext) before the
>>> yield..
>>>
>>
>> Right.
>>
>
> I don't see a call to setcontext() in the sin() example in the library
> reference. Is that document wrong? I thought that simply modifying the
> parameters of the current context would be sufficient.

The library reference isn't modifying the parameters in a *copy* of  
the current context.

-bob



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