Refine stubs for Python 2's decimal module#545
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The decimal module for Python 2 was relatively incomplete, unlike the decimal module for Python 3. This commit copies the relevant type signatures from Python 3's decimal module to Python 2's. There was a lot of code in both stubs and it wasn't clear to me if it was safe to merge the two modules together, so I refrained from doing so.
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| ROUND_UP = ... # type: Any | ||
| ROUND_HALF_DOWN = ... # type: Any | ||
| ROUND_05UP = ... # type: Any | ||
| _Decimal = Union[Decimal, int] |
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I think modern Decimal is lenient about floats and just accepts them. I recommend just adding float here, else you have to add it to many other places (in our server code I found problems comparing floats to decimals.
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Sounds good. Should I also make that change in the Python 3's version of Decimal? (I copied _Decimal from the current Python 3 stubs).
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Hm, this needs more nuance. IIUC comparisons with floats are acceptable, but not e.g. addition. So maybe you need a more lenient union type just for comparisons.
This commit loosens the types for Decimals to allow comparisons like
`Decimal('3.14') < 4.2`. Previously, you could compare decimals with
only other decimals or ints.
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@gvanrossum -- ok, I made comparisons more lenient. Try now? |
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I think this is a good improvement and I think it's found some nonsense on our side! |
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The decimal module for Python 2 was relatively incomplete, unlike the decimal module for Python 3. This commit copies the relevant type signatures from Python 3's decimal module to Python 2's (and slightly tweaks them to match the Python 2 function definitions in a few places).
There was a lot of code in both stubs and it wasn't clear to me if it was safe to merge the two modules together, so I refrained from doing so.