Message98218
| Author | mark.dickinson |
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| Recipients | adamtj, bertchughes, facundobatista, jdunck, lorg, mark.dickinson, rhettinger, skrah |
| Date | 2010-01-24.12:37:20 |
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| Message-id | <1264336642.77.0.931199401896.issue2531@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
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Stefan: the problem is backwards compatibility. In 2.6 it's possible to sort a heterogeneous list that contains both Decimal instances and floats. The resulting order may not be particularly meaningful, but for some applications that doesn't matter. If we make a Decimal-to-float comparison raise TypeError for 2.7 then sort will raise a TypeError where it used to work, so it's a potential code-breaking change. We could deprecate: raise a warning in 2.7 and make it a TypeError in 2.8, but since 2.8 currently seems unlikely to happen that would be a bit pointless. |
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| Date | User | Action | Args |
| 2010-01-24 12:37:22 | mark.dickinson | set | recipients: + mark.dickinson, rhettinger, facundobatista, jdunck, lorg, skrah, adamtj, bertchughes |
| 2010-01-24 12:37:22 | mark.dickinson | set | messageid: <1264336642.77.0.931199401896.issue2531@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
| 2010-01-24 12:37:21 | mark.dickinson | link | issue2531 messages |
| 2010-01-24 12:37:20 | mark.dickinson | create | |