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<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 4:12 PM, Guido van Rossum <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:guido@python.org" target="_blank">guido@python.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_extra">Thank you! As you may or may not have noticed in a different thread, we're going through a small existential crisis regarding the usefulness of is_integer() -- Serhiy believes it is not useful (and even an attractive nuisance) and should be deprecated. OTOH the existence of dec_mpd_isinteger() seems to validate to me that it actually exposes useful functionality (and every Python feature can be abused, so that alone should not be a strong argument for deprecation).<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>if not deprecated, then do we add it to all the other numeric types? Which was the original suggestion, yes?<br></div><div><br></div><div>-CHB<br><br></div><br></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><br>Christopher Barker, Ph.D.<br>Oceanographer<br><br>Emergency Response Division<br>NOAA/NOS/OR&R Â Â Â Â Â Â (206) 526-6959Â Â voice<br>7600 Sand Point Way NE Â Â (206) 526-6329Â Â fax<br>Seattle, WA Â 98115 Â Â Â Â (206) 526-6317Â Â main reception<br><br><a href="mailto:Chris.Barker@noaa.gov" target="_blank">Chris.Barker@noaa.gov</a></div>
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