Message 143898 - Python tracker

Message143898

Author	mark.dickinson
Recipients	Alexander.Belopolsky, Arfrever, belopolsky, jcea, khenriksson, larry, lars.gustaebel, loewis, mark.dickinson, nadeem.vawda, r.david.murray, rosslagerwall, skrah, vstinner
Date	2011-09-12.12:30:41
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Message-id	<1315830642.06.0.33751446811.issue11457@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> I propose adding the Decimal fields "ctime", "atime", and "mtime" to the > named tuple returned by os.stat(). That would be an interesting precedent: I don't think there are many (any?) other places outside the 'decimal' module that deal with Decimal objects (excluding general purpose serialization protocols and the like). Decimal's support for conversion to-and-from float (and comparison with float) is stronger than it used to be; I think this could work.

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> I propose adding the Decimal fields "ctime", "atime", and "mtime" to the > named tuple returned by os.stat().

That would be an interesting precedent:  I don't think there are many (any?) other places outside the 'decimal' module that deal with Decimal objects (excluding general purpose serialization protocols and the like).

Decimal's support for conversion to-and-from float (and comparison with float) is stronger than it used to be; I think this could work.

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