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Author	pitrou
Recipients	facundobatista, mark.dickinson, ncoghlan, pitrou, rhettinger
Date	2009-01-10.18:14:51
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Message-id	<1231611292.83.0.13957773808.issue2486@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> By the way, presumably it's not a prerequisite for (2) that all of the > decimal.py functionality be recoded in C? I could imagine a situation > where the decimal literals are present in the core, but an 'import > decimal' was necessary to get complete functionality. We already have this situation with builtin open() and "import io", so I guess that wouldn't be out of question.

> By the way, presumably it's not a prerequisite for (2) that *all* of the 
> decimal.py functionality be recoded in C?  I could imagine a situation 
> where the decimal literals are present in the core, but an 'import 
> decimal' was necessary to get complete functionality.

We already have this situation with builtin open() and "import io", so I
guess that wouldn't be out of question.

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Date	User	Action	Args
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