[Python-Dev] [RELEASED] Python 3.3.0 release candidate 3

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Sat Sep 29 20:39:03 CEST 2012


On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 4:26 AM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> Does this mean we want to re-open the discussion about decimal constants?
> Last time this came up I think we decided that we wanted to wait for
> cdecimal (which is obviously here) and work out how to handle contexts, the
> syntax, etc.

Just to throw a crazy idea out: How bad a change would it be to make
decimal actually the default?

(Caveat: I've not worked with decimal/cdecimal to any real extent and
don't know its limitations etc.)

ChrisA


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