Proposal: Decimal literals in Python.

Ben Finney bignose+hates-spam at benfinney.id.au
Fri Oct 26 09:15:34 EDT 2007


Steven D'Aprano <steve at REMOVE-THIS-cybersource.com.au> writes:

> On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:19:46 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Nor should we. A function or type name should be short but
> > explicit, and 'Decimal' is about as short as I'd want.
> 
> You don't like str, int, float, list, set, dict, or bool?

They'd all make lousy names for a decimal type.

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