STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment: > Just to clarify, no decision has yet been made on *whether* > the cdecimal work should be integrated into py3k; > we'll consult python-dev on this once we've got a working branch > and performance information.
So, what is the status today? _decimal looks to be huge. Does Python really need yet another multiprecision library? There is already gmpy and bigfloat, based on the heavily optimized GMP library, for example. Is it a license issue? Can't we reuse GMP/MPFR to offer a Decimal API? _decimal should maybe first be distributed as a third party library until it is really well tested and its API is really stable, until we can decide to integrate it. The patch adds __setattr__ to the Decimal class. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7652> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
