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

[Pierce T.W. I. <pi...@tw...>]

On Mar 10, 2004, at 9:15 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:

>
> 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>

  Doh!

  Pierce