Message 95263 - Python tracker

Message95263

Author	mark.dickinson
Recipients	facundobatista, jdunck, lorg, mark.dickinson, rhettinger
Date	2009-11-14.22:37:13
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Just closed issue 7323 as a duplicate of this one. I think this issue is worth reopening: with the backport of the py3k correctly rounded string <-> float conversions, there might now be a reasonable way to rewrite Decimal.__hash__ so that it's consistent with float.__hash__. Then we can make Decimal-to-float comparisons behave correctly and clear up this mess. I'd still be uncomfortable with allowing Decimal-to-float comparisons in 2.x but not in 3.x. Maybe they could be permitted in 3.x too?

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Just closed issue 7323 as a duplicate of this one.

I think this issue is worth reopening:  with the backport of the py3k 
correctly rounded string <-> float conversions, there might now be a 
reasonable way to rewrite Decimal.__hash__ so that it's consistent with 
float.__hash__.  Then we can make Decimal-to-float comparisons behave 
correctly and clear up this mess.

I'd still be uncomfortable with allowing Decimal-to-float comparisons in 
2.x but not in 3.x.  Maybe they could be permitted in 3.x too?

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Date	User	Action	Args
2009-11-14 22:37:15	mark.dickinson	set	recipients: + mark.dickinson, rhettinger, facundobatista, jdunck, lorg
2009-11-14 22:37:14	mark.dickinson	set	messageid: <1258238234.77.0.876707355875.issue2531@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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