Proposal: Decimal literals in Python.

[Terry Reedy]

"Shane Geiger" <sgeiger at ncee.net> wrote in message 
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a buggy hack (copying your top post style)

>>> D(123456789.123456789)
Decimal("123456789.123")

Or what there an unwritten :-)?

| D = lambda x: decimal.Decimal(str(x))
|
| >> D(3.2)
| Decimal("3.2")