On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:24:07 +0200, "Diez B. Roggisch" <de...@nospam.web.de> 
wrote:
alessiogiovanni.bar...@gmail.com wrote:

There are reasons why Python not used the GMP library for implementing
its long type?

Any reason it should? I don't know GMP (only that it exists), but adding
binary dependencies is always a tricky and in need of careful weighting
thing to do.

This has been discussion in detail on python-dev (more than once, I think,
even).  Here's the top of one such thread:

 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-November/083315.html

Jean-Paul
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