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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 16:26:11 +1100
Subject: Re: extend methods of decimal module
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Mark H. Harris <harrismh777@gmail.com> wrote:
> do I make the assumption that all functions will take a string as argument and then let interactive users bare the responsibility to enter a string or decimal... avoiding floats...

Just have your users pass in Decimal objects. They can construct them
however they wish.

ChrisA