[Python-Dev] Symmetry arguments for API expansion

[Chris Barker]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 4:12 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

> Thank you! As you may or may not have noticed in a different thread, we're
> going through a small existential crisis regarding the usefulness of
> is_integer() -- Serhiy believes it is not useful (and even an attractive
> nuisance) and should be deprecated. OTOH the existence of
> dec_mpd_isinteger() seems to validate to me that it actually exposes useful
> functionality (and every Python feature can be abused, so that alone should
> not be a strong argument for deprecation).
>

if not deprecated, then do we add it to all the other numeric types? Which
was the original suggestion, yes?

-CHB




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