How about adding rational fraction to Python?

[Carl Banks]

On Feb 16, 5:51 pm, Jeff Schwab <j... at schwabcenter.com> wrote:
> Carl Banks wrote:
> > On Feb 16, 3:03 pm, Lie <Lie.1... at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Although rationals have its limitations too, it is a much
> >> better choice compared to floats/Decimals for most cases.
>
> > Maybe that's true for your use cases, but it's not true for most cases
> > in general.
>
> > Rationals are pretty useless for almost any extended calculations,
> > since the denominator tends to grow in size till it's practically
> > unusbale,
>
> What do you mean by "practically unusable?"  I heard similar arguments
> made against big integers at one point ("Primitive types are usually big
> enough, why risk performance?") but I fell in love with them when I
> first saw them in Smalltalk, and I'm glad Python supports them natively.