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Author	mark.dickinson
Recipients	eric.smith, mark.dickinson
Date	2010年07月30日.17:27:37
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Alexander Belopolsky pointed out another nice aspect of this change: after the change, let 'numerictype' be any of int, float, complex, Decimal or Fraction, and let 'x' be an instance of numerictype. Then numerictype(str(x)) recovers x exactly. See also additional discussion at: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-July/102515.html The consensus (so far) seems to be in favour of this change. I'll leave it a few more days in case people haven't seen the python-dev thread yet, and then assuming that there's no dissent I'll commit.

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Alexander Belopolsky pointed out another nice aspect of this change: after the change, let 'numerictype' be any of int, float, complex, Decimal or Fraction, and let 'x' be an instance of numerictype. Then
numerictype(str(x))
recovers x exactly.
See also additional discussion at:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-July/102515.html
The consensus (so far) seems to be in favour of this change. I'll leave it a few more days in case people haven't seen the python-dev thread yet, and then assuming that there's no dissent I'll commit.

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