On Sep 15, 2:27 am, Andrew Svetlov <andrew.svet...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there some kind of python binding for decNumber library? > Standard decimal.Decimal is good enough, but very slow. > My current project toughly coupled with 'currency' operations and we > have performance problems related to decimal calculations. > From my perspective decNumber is fast and has well wide domain to > represent and process all required set of numbers - we don't need to > work with 'almost infinite numbers' as python decimal can. > I tried to google for desired binding - but found nothing. > gmpy is interesting project, but supported types is not exactly what > we need - rationals and big floats is not decimals in fixed point > notation. > My team discussed about making own python binding of decNumber - but > before we start this task I like to ask python community: is there > existing implementation? I don't want to invent the wheel again.
As far as I know, no such bindings exist. There have been various efforts to rewrite the decimal module in C, but (again as far as I know) none of those efforts have come to fruition yet. -- Mark -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list