[Python-Dev] Decimal & amp; lt; -& amp; gt; float comparisons in py3k.

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Mar 21 05:48:18 CET 2010


Nick Coghlan wrote:

> Note that Antoine's point was that float("0.1") and
> Decimal.from_float(0.1) should compare equal.

That would mean that Decimal("0.1") != float("0.1"), which might be
surprising to someone who didn't realise they were mixing floats
and decimals.

-- 
Greg


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