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Fri Jan 4 13:40:51 CET 2008 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-January/075844.html

2008/1/4, Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin at gmail.com>:

> I haven't seen any answers to the original question. It looks like
> Decimal is decided by 2.5 too: return a float from everything.
> Rational, being a completely new type, is up to you guys, but because
> new support for the conversion routines seems to be rare, it's
> probably best to have it return floats too.

Sorry, I didn't understand this parragraph.

Do you mean that the response in the following case is of type "float"?:

>>> round(decimal.Decimal("2.5"))
3.0

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