On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 9:10 AM, nirinA raseliarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > gammas and errors functions are available from the C standard > library. it would be nice to have them in the math module. > or is there any reason not to include them?
One reason is that they're probably not available on all platforms; these functions are part of the C99 standard, and not everyone has caught up with all the little details of C99 yet. In particular, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that these functions still weren't available on Windows. We had this problem when adding the inverse hyperbolic trig functions to Python 2.6. I don't know whether it would be acceptable to expose these functions to Python only on those platforms that have support for them in the C library. Writing explicit code for these functions, for platforms whose libm doesn't support them, would be a fairly major task. Stealing code (in an appropriately legal fashion) from somewhere else might work. In any case, if you're interested in getting these in to 2.7/3.1 (it's too late for 2.6/3.0) then I'd suggest opening a feature request at bugs.python.org. (And assign it to me, if you like.) Mark _______________________________________________ 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
