An alpha release of GMPY that supports Python 2 and 3 is available. GMPY is a wrapper for the GMP multiple-precision arithmetic library. The MPIR multiple-precision arithmetic library is also supported. GMPY is available for download from http://code.google.com/p/gmpy/
Support for Python 3 required many changes to the logic used to convert between different numerical types. The result type of some combinations has changed. For example, 'mpz' + 'float' now returns an 'mpf' instead of a 'float'. See the file "changes.txt" for more information. In addition to support for Python 3, there are several other changes and bug fixes: - Bug fixes in mpz.binary() and mpq.binary(). - Unicode strings are accepted as input on Python 2. (Known bug: works for mpz, fails for mpq and mpf) - The overhead for calling GMPY routines has been reduced. If one operand in a small integer, it is not converted to mpz. - 'mpf' and 'mpq' now support % and divmod. Comments on provided binaries The 32-bit Windows installers were compiled using MPIR 1.2.1 and will automatically recognize the CPU type and use code optimized for that CPU. Please test with your applications and report any issues found! casevh -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations/
