It only reflects the fact what comp.lang.python replicated by several web sites. Unfortunately looks like there are no link to library implements that : (
On Sep 15, 5:17 pm, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > Mark Dickinson wrote: > > 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. > > Searching "Python decNumber binding" puts your query, from various > sources, in several of the top 10 sports ;-) Did not seen anythng in the > next 20 either. > > > 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. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list