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Author	rhettinger
Recipients	jdemeyer, mark.dickinson, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, steven.daprano
Date	2019-08-23.02:14:53
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Message-id	<[email protected]>
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[Mark] > I'm with Raymond here; I don't think this change is > desirable for the math module, either with or without > the leading underscore in the name. [Jeroen] > May I propose PR 15327 as alternative? I'll take a look soonish. Since it has its own BPO, I'll go ahead and close this. FWIW, the entire point of us having recently added as_integer_ratio() methods to so many concrete classes is to avoid the need for helper functions in favor of a simple try/except around a single call. Please don't try to code around that solution.

[Mark]
> I'm with Raymond here; I don't think this change is 
> desirable for the math module, either with or without 
> the leading underscore in the name.

[Jeroen]
> May I propose PR 15327 as alternative?

I'll take a look soonish.  Since it has its own BPO, I'll go ahead and close this.

FWIW, the entire point of us having recently added as_integer_ratio() methods to so many concrete classes is to avoid the need for helper functions in favor of a simple try/except around a single call.  Please don't try to code around that solution.

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