Greg Ewing wrote: > Nick Coghlan wrote: >> Greg Ewing wrote: >> >>> I thought Decimal was going to be replaced by a C >>> implementation soon anyway. >> I believe that was found to be more trouble than it was worth. > > That's very disappointing. Was there any discussion of > the problems that killed it? I don't remember seeing > any showstoppers being mentioned.
I believe the list of incompatibilities and kludges and the subsequent comments in the following file give the gist of the problems: http://svn.python.org/projects/sandbox/trunk/decimal-c/_decimal.c Basically, while it makes a lot of sense to move the *arithmetic* to C (as Mark mentioned in his other post), there's a lot of ancillary stuff related to flags and exceptions and context handling that is much easier to handle in Python. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.boredomandlaziness.org _______________________________________________ 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
