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Re:James Gosling Interview by WoodenChair on Thursday August 12, 2021 @08:31AM (#28155399)
“It’s a pedantic statement. Correct for the base language”

No, it’s not. In the base language Python has an int type that is separate from its float type.

See numbers.Integral and numbers.Real

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Re:James Gosling Interview by pletnes on Thursday August 12, 2021 @09:28AM (#28156025)
Yes, hence my edit. Thanks for pointing out the numbers module. There are fractional types there, too. And decimal.
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