[issue29223] Settable defaulting to decimal instead of float

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor added the comment:

You are not the first one to propose the idea.

2012: "make decimal the default non-integer instead of float?"
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2012-September/016250.html

2014: "Python Numbers as Human Concept Decimal System"
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2014-March/026436.html


Related discussions:

2008: "Decimal literal?"
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2008-December/002379.html

2015: "Python Float Update"
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2015-June/033787.html

PEP 240 "Adding a Rational Literal to Python".

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