Re: [Pyobjc-dev] NSDecimalNumber to the next level

[Ronald O. <ous...@ci...>]

On 10-mrt-04, at 17:08, Pierce T.Wetter III wrote:

>>
>> I completely forgot to mention that the usual numeric operators do 
>> work correctly, as long as you manually convert floats to NSDecimal, 
>> e.g. ``NSDecimalNumber.zero() + 4`` is valid code and will do what 
>> you want.
>
> Hmmm.... That must have changed, because I submitted a change which 
> you accepted awhile back to not implicitly convert. Checking...
>
> >>> print type(Foundation.NSDecimalNumber.zero())
> <type 'float'>
>
> Arrgh, its converting again. That works because Python converted it 
> implicitly to a float. (Which is actually kind of surprising, since I 
> thought it had stopped doing that. See comment for (Bug #831774) in 
> objc/objc_support.m)

You're using the wrong version of PyObjC:

 >>> type (Foundation.NSDecimalNumber.zero())
<objective-c class NSDecimalNumber at 0xa0a061f4>

Ronald
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