Mateusz Rukowicz wrote: > Grzegorz Makarewicz wrote: > >> Python in high aritmetic - nice, but in standard ? - using computation >> effective representation as in this "demand" should be put as *must* >> have ? in standard python ? - decimal with it's speed is sufficient - if >> U need more speed use more spohisticated data structures - numpy/scipy >> ... - I dont like those additions to python standard. >> > First of all C Decimal isn't meant to be substitute to numpy in any way. > Second of all, I don't think numpy/scipy is an alternative to Decimal - > it is more complicated, and I am not even sure if it supports Decimal > arithmetic (which is crucial for financial application ie.). > > [I couldn't find on google whether scipy supports decimal arithmetic, so > I assumed it doesn't because of name '*scientific* tools for python'. > However, if it supports - ignore following text block]
You are right. We have no tools in numpy or scipy for decimal arithmetic. The focus of numpy is arrays. This decimal module is complementary to numpy and vice versa. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com