Message148650
> Just to clarify, no decision has yet been made on *whether*
> the cdecimal work should be integrated into py3k;
> we'll consult python-dev on this once we've got a working branch
> and performance information.
So, what is the status today?
_decimal looks to be huge. Does Python really need yet another multiprecision library? There is already gmpy and bigfloat, based on the heavily optimized GMP library, for example. Is it a license issue? Can't we reuse GMP/MPFR to offer a Decimal API?
_decimal should maybe first be distributed as a third party library until it is really well tested and its API is really stable, until we can decide to integrate it. The patch adds __setattr__ to the Decimal class. |
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2011-11-30 12:40:44 | vstinner | set | recipients:
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