On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Chris Withers <[email protected]> wrote: > On 22/08/2011 00:18, Mark Dickinson wrote: >> >> On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 1:08 AM, Robert Kern<[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> You may want to try the cdecimal package: >>> >>> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/cdecimal/ >> >> I'll second this suggestion. cdecimal is an extraordinarily carefully >> written and well-tested (almost) drop-in replacement for the decimal >> module, and well worth a try. It would probably be in the Python >> standard library by now if anyone had had proper time to review it... > > Who would need to review it?
Well, anyone who has the time and understands the domain, really; it's just useful to have a second pair of eyes going through the code. Putting several thousands of lines of unreviewed C code into the Python standard library is a bit of a no-no. Mark _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
