On Feb 11, 2016, at 00:22, Georg Brandl <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Allowing underscores in string arguments to the ``Decimal`` constructor. It
> could be argued that these are akin to literals, since there is no Decimal
> literal available (yet).
I'm +1 on this. Partly for consistency (see below)--but also, one of the use
cases for Decimal is when you need more precision than float, meaning you'll
often have even more digits to separate.
> * Allowing underscores in string arguments to ``int()`` with base argument 0,
> ``float()`` and ``complex()``.
+1, because these are actually defined in terms of literals. For example, under
int, "Base 0 means to interpret exactly as a code literal". This isn't actually
quite true, because "-2" is not an integer literal but is accepted here--but
see float for an example that *is* rigorously defined, and still defers to
literal syntax and semantics.
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