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Author	loewis
Recipients	belopolsky, larry, lemburg, loewis, pitrou, scoder, skrah
Date	2014年10月04日.02:57:51
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Message-id	<1412391471.99.0.497044635708.issue22194@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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I'd like to focus this issue a bit. Antoine originally proposed that non-Python code might want to access libmpdec. However, given that this is now a separate project (as it seems), I don't think it's Python's task to make the API available. If it is a separate library really, you shouldn't need to link to Python in order to use it. IOW, the solution should be to use the system libmpdec. So the focus should be on other Python C modules that want to access decimal objects. Are there precedents of such modules? What API features do they actually need?

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I'd like to focus this issue a bit. Antoine originally proposed that non-Python code might want to access libmpdec. However, given that this is now a separate project (as it seems), I don't think it's Python's task to make the API available. If it is a separate library really, you shouldn't need to link to Python in order to use it. IOW, the solution should be to use the system libmpdec.
So the focus should be on other Python C modules that want to access decimal objects. Are there precedents of such modules? What API features do they actually need?

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Date	User	Action	Args
2014年10月04日 02:57:52	loewis	set	recipients: + loewis, lemburg, belopolsky, pitrou, scoder, larry, skrah
2014年10月04日 02:57:51	loewis	set	messageid: <1412391471.99.0.497044635708.issue22194@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2014年10月04日 02:57:51	loewis	link	issue22194 messages
2014年10月04日 02:57:51	loewis	create

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