Against PEP 240

Aahz Maruch aahz at panix.com
Wed May 30 18:30:29 EDT 2001


In article <9f0fc80280a at enews2.newsguy.com>,
Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>True, I suspect Roman had badly placed the question, relying
>on context (long since snipped away:-) to avoid any possible
>misinterpretation.  As Python's longs "obviously" (to any Pythonista:-)
>provide infinite-precision INTEGRAL arithmetic, what Roman was asking,
>I'm pretty sure, is whether there was inf-precision on NON-INTEGRAL
>numbers:-).

C'mon, Alex, you know better than that: longs are unbounded precision,
not infinite precision.
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