[Python-Dev] Decimal(unicode)
Greg Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Mar 26 00:31:24 CET 2008
Nick Coghlan wrote:
> Since we have some strong use cases at least for the bytes->int case,
> consistency then suggests that the other numeric types should all accept
> bytes as well (interpreting them as ASCII encoded strings).
How far should this go? Is conversion to numbers really
so special, or should bytes be acceptable in any context
requiring a string, with an implicit encoding of ascii?
--
Greg
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