On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 07:57, Mark Dickinson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Eric Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The code was working a few months ago (with all Decimal tests > >> passing), but there have been some changes and bugfixes since > >> then. I might try to resurrect that code, dropping the _Decimal type > and > >> just concentrating on Deccoeff. > > > > My only concern about this is the effect it would have on IronPython, > > Jython, PyPy, and other alternate implementations that use the stdlib. > > Yes, that worries me a bit, too. I have the same worry with the idea > of rewriting the entire decimal module in C. > > The Deccoeff type is very simple, though. It would be easy to create > a pure Python version of it, and then do something like: > > try: > from _decimal import Deccoeff # try to get C version > except ImportError: > from deccoeff import Deccoeff # else use Python fallback code. And this is why you shouldn't have to worry. As long as the tests exercise both the pure Python and C versions then the other VMs are covered. -Brett
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