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Author skrah
Recipients larry, lemburg, loewis, pitrou, scoder, skrah
Date 2014-09-03.16:33:20
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Antoine Pitrou <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
> > large parts of the cdecimal on PyPI (which uses the incompatible libmpdec-2.3) would need to be rewritten.
>
> Ah, so it has an incompatible ABI? That will complicate things a bit :-)

Yes, cdecimal on PyPI is slower, has a different ABI, uses libmpdec-2.3,
has subtle differences in the context handling, cannot subclass the
context, ... ;)

I think a common C API for 2.7 is only possible with a real backport.
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