Description
To make fraction literals more readable, this should be made to work: Fraction('31_415_925_535 / 10_000_000_000')
PEP 515 – Underscores in Numeric Literals are well supported in all numeric types except for fractions. This works: 1_234
and Decimal('1_234')
. However, this is not accepted: Fraction('1_234')
.
Like decimals and ints, fractions support leading and trailing whitespace for string inputs: int(' 123 ')
, Decimal(' 123.4 ')
, and Fraction(' 123/100 ')
. What is still needed is support for optional whitespace around the forward slash: Fraction('355 / 113')
. This particular example came up when using the Fraction module to teach math to kids and where the string literal was obtained from calling input()
.
Side note: If you write print(355/113)
in your code, Black will reformat it to print(355 / 113)
. Because of this, I expect that adults will also develop a preference for writing fractions with whitespace around the slash.