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Author	vstinner
Recipients	BreamoreBoy, aconrad, belopolsky, larry, mark.dickinson, python-dev, r.david.murray, tbarbugli, tim.peters, trcarden, vivanov, vstinner
Date	2015年09月04日.22:34:49
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Message-id	<1441406089.09.0.859505105051.issue23517@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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> My opinions haven't changed: nearest/even is unnatural for rounding times ("sometimes up, sometimes down" grates against the nature of monotonically non-decreasing timestamps), By the way, why does Python use ROUND_HALF_EVEN for round()? It also feels unnatural to me! >>> round(0.5) 0 >>> round(1.5) 2

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> My opinions haven't changed: nearest/even is unnatural for rounding times ("sometimes up, sometimes down" grates against the nature of monotonically non-decreasing timestamps),
By the way, why does Python use ROUND_HALF_EVEN for round()? It also feels unnatural to me!
>>> round(0.5)
0
>>> round(1.5)
2

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2015年09月04日 22:34:49	vstinner	set	recipients: + vstinner, tim.peters, mark.dickinson, belopolsky, larry, r.david.murray, aconrad, BreamoreBoy, vivanov, python-dev, tbarbugli, trcarden
2015年09月04日 22:34:49	vstinner	set	messageid: <1441406089.09.0.859505105051.issue23517@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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