compared, sorted, and coerced to another type (such as :class:`float` or
:class:`long`).
+ Decimal objects cannot generally be combined with floats in
+ arithmetic operations: an attempt to add a :class:`Decimal` to a
+ :class:`float`, for example, will raise a :exc:`TypeError`.
+ There's one exception to this rule: it's possible to use Python's
+ comparison operators to compare a :class:`float` instance ``x``
+ with a :class:`Decimal` instance ``y``. Without this exception,
+ comparisons between :class:`Decimal` and :class:`float` instances
+ would follow the general rules for comparing objects of different
+ types described in the :ref:`expressions` section of the reference
+ manual, leading to confusing results.
+
+ .. versionchanged:: 2.7
+ A comparison between a :class:`float` instance ``x`` and a
+ :class:`Decimal` instance ``y`` now returns a result based on
+ the values of ``x`` and ``y``. In earlier versions ``x < y``
+ returned the same (arbitrary) result for any :class:`Decimal`
+ instance ``x`` and any :class:`float` instance ``y``.
+
In addition to the standard numeric properties, decimal floating point
objects also have a number of specialized methods:
# that specified by IEEE 754.
def __eq__(self, other):
- other = _convert_other(other)
+ other = _convert_other(other, allow_float=True)
if other is NotImplemented:
return other
if self.is_nan() or other.is_nan():
return self._cmp(other) == 0
def __ne__(self, other):
- other = _convert_other(other)
+ other = _convert_other(other, allow_float=True)
if other is NotImplemented:
return other
if self.is_nan() or other.is_nan():
return self._cmp(other) != 0
def __lt__(self, other, context=None):
- other = _convert_other(other)
+ other = _convert_other(other, allow_float=True)
if other is NotImplemented:
return other
ans = self._compare_check_nans(other, context)
return self._cmp(other) < 0
def __le__(self, other, context=None):
- other = _convert_other(other)
+ other = _convert_other(other, allow_float=True)
if other is NotImplemented:
return other
ans = self._compare_check_nans(other, context)
return self._cmp(other) <= 0
def __gt__(self, other, context=None):
- other = _convert_other(other)
+ other = _convert_other(other, allow_float=True)
if other is NotImplemented:
return other
ans = self._compare_check_nans(other, context)
return self._cmp(other) > 0
def __ge__(self, other, context=None):
- other = _convert_other(other)
+ other = _convert_other(other, allow_float=True)
if other is NotImplemented:
return other
ans = self._compare_check_nans(other, context)
# The hash of a nonspecial noninteger Decimal must depend only
# on the value of that Decimal, and not on its representation.
# For example: hash(Decimal('100E-1')) == hash(Decimal('10')).
- if self._is_special:
- if self._isnan():
- raise TypeError('Cannot hash a NaN value.')
- return hash(str(self))
- if not self:
- return 0
+ if self._is_special and self._isnan():
+ raise TypeError('Cannot hash a NaN value.')
+
+ # In Python 2.7, we're allowing comparisons (but not
+ # arithmetic operations) between floats and Decimals; so if
+ # a Decimal instance is exactly representable as a float then
+ # its hash should match that of the float. Note that this takes care
+ # of zeros and infinities, as well as small integers.
+ self_as_float = float(self)
+ if Decimal.from_float(self_as_float) == self:
+ return hash(self_as_float)
+
if self._isinteger():
op = _WorkRep(self.to_integral_value())
# to make computation feasible for Decimals with large
##### Helper Functions ####################################################
-def _convert_other(other, raiseit=False):
+def _convert_other(other, raiseit=False, allow_float=False):
"""Convert other to Decimal.
Verifies that it's ok to use in an implicit construction.
+ If allow_float is true, allow conversion from float; this
+ is used in the comparison methods (__eq__ and friends).
+
"""
if isinstance(other, Decimal):
return other
if isinstance(other, (int, long)):
return Decimal(other)
+ if allow_float and isinstance(other, float):
+ return Decimal.from_float(other)
+
if raiseit:
raise TypeError("Unable to convert %s to Decimal" % other)
return NotImplemented
self.assertFalse(Decimal(1) < None)
self.assertTrue(Decimal(1) > None)
+ def test_decimal_float_comparison(self):
+ da = Decimal('0.25')
+ db = Decimal('3.0')
+ self.assert_(da < 3.0)
+ self.assert_(da <= 3.0)
+ self.assert_(db > 0.25)
+ self.assert_(db >= 0.25)
+ self.assert_(da != 1.5)
+ self.assert_(da == 0.25)
+ self.assert_(3.0 > da)
+ self.assert_(3.0 >= da)
+ self.assert_(0.25 < db)
+ self.assert_(0.25 <= db)
+ self.assert_(0.25 != db)
+ self.assert_(3.0 == db)
+ self.assert_(0.1 != Decimal('0.1'))
+
def test_copy_and_deepcopy_methods(self):
d = Decimal('43.24')
c = copy.copy(d)
self.assertTrue(hash(Decimal('Inf')))
self.assertTrue(hash(Decimal('-Inf')))
+ # check that the hashes of a Decimal float match when they
+ # represent exactly the same values
+ test_strings = ['inf', '-Inf', '0.0', '-.0e1',
+ '34.0', '2.5', '112390.625', '-0.515625']
+ for s in test_strings:
+ f = float(s)
+ d = Decimal(s)
+ self.assertEqual(hash(f), hash(d))
+
# check that the value of the hash doesn't depend on the
# current context (issue #1757)
c = getcontext()
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