On Feb 27, 1:38 pm, "Ziga Seilnacht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Martelli wrote: > > On Feb 27, 2007, at 2:59 AM, Daniel Nogradi wrote: > > > > Hi Alex, > > > > I did another test, this time with python 2.4 on suse and things are > > > worse than in the previous case (which was python 2.5 on fedora 3), > > > ouput of 'python gmp_test.py' follows: > > > Interesting! gmpy interacts with decimal.Decimal by "monkey- > > patching" that class on the fly; clearly the monkey-patching isn't > > working with 2.4 on SuSE, so all the addition attempts are failing > > (all 6 of them). > > > So the issue is finding out why this strategy is failing there, while > > succeeding on other Linux distros, Mac, and Windows. > > This is a bug in Python's decimal module in release 2.4.0. It was > fixed > in release 2.4.1: > > http://svn.python.org/view?rev=38708&view=rev
Thanks! This was really helpful and saved me a lot of head- scratching. I'm wondering if I should specifically test for 2.4.0 in the tests, and give a clear error message about decimal interoperability with other types being broken in that release and suggesting an upgrade, rather than producing "mysterious" test breakages... done -- I think this may simplify things in the future. Thanks, Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
