Hi Kai, I am not using numpy financial, but from what I know:
Given numpy 2.0 has a support for MPFD types I think it is very reasonable to drop Decimal support and remove unnecessary complexity. Regards, dgpb > On 30 Mar 2024, at 02:20, kaistri...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm currently working NumPy-Financial (npf) and would like to ask for > comments on dropping decimal.Decimal support in npf. I'm proposing to drop > Decimal support for npf. There are a few reasons for this: > > 1. No one appears to use decimal types. Since it's release in 2019, not a > single issue has been raised that uses decimal support. Furthermore, I have > taken a quick survey of dependent projects, none of which seems to use > decimals. > > 2. It's not actually supported that thoroughly. Npf claims that: “Functions > support the :class:`decimal.Decimal` type unless otherwise stated.”. This > isn't technically true. Many functions that claim to support decimal classes > don't. I think it would be better to have a consistent interface that would > either entierly support decimal or not support it at all. > > 3. I'm currently working on mimicking broadcasting behaviour for functions. > This involves lots of for loops. To speed these up I will use either numba or > Cython. Neither of these support decimal classes natively. > > If you have any comments on whether this seems to be the right option, I > would be very interested in hearing it. > > Kind regards > > Kai > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list -- numpy-discussion@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to numpy-discussion-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/numpy-discussion.python.org/ > Member address: dom.grigo...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list -- numpy-discussion@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to numpy-discussion-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/numpy-discussion.python.org/ Member address: arch...@mail-archive.com
