Message79587
| Author |
rhettinger |
| Recipients |
facundobatista, mark.dickinson, ncoghlan, pitrou, rhettinger |
| Date |
2009年01月11日.04:57:29 |
| SpamBayes Score |
0.0005966031 |
| Marked as misclassified |
No |
| Message-id |
<1231649877.5.0.294443447747.issue2486@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
| In-reply-to |
| Content |
FWIW, I'm currently seeking project sponsorship to work on this. To do
it right, a substantial portion of the module should be coded in C and
needs to function independently of Python, with accessors provided to
for Python to wrap around.
Once, there is a fast C version, a discussion of a decimal literal can
become a reasonable possibility. It will be an uphill battle though.
Many decimal apps have few internal constants -- most of the data comes
into the program from and external source and gets written back. A
literal itself doesn't have much utility except for playing around at
the command line. Also, there would need to be a PEP talking about how
decimals should interact with binary floats and the rest of the language
(which pretty much ignores decimals). |
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