[Python-Dev] Return type of round, floor, and ceil in 2.6

[Mark Dickinson]

On Jan 4, 2008 11:14 AM, Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jan 4, 2008 4:40 AM, Facundo Batista <facundobatista at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Do you mean that the response in the following case is of type "float"?:
> >
> > >>> round(decimal.Decimal("2.5"))
> > 3.0
>
> Yes.
>

That seems a little peculiar to me: wouldn't it be more natural to have
round(Decimal_instance) return another Decimal?

Mark
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