FWIW I just modified decimal to import numbers and made Decimal inherit from Inexact and Real. No impact whatsoever.
--Guido On Dec 10, 2007 1:38 PM, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Moore wrote: > > On 10/12/2007, Jim Jewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>"Don't import module X just for me, but *if* someone else imports it, > >>then I want to do these things to/with it." > > > > That sounds to me exactly like the registration use case Christian > > mentioned: > > > > Register decimal.Decimal as a "ABC.Number" type - but don't import > > decimal just so that I can do this, > > I think the point is that you could just as well > achieve this by lazily importing decimal with a > callback. > > -- > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > Python-3000 mailing list > Python-3000@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/guido%40python.org > -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
