In this case I disagree. The math module mostly wraps the C math library and the bar should remain high for things to be added to it. Let this be someone's opportunity to learn C (I guess not Chris's :-).
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 3:14 PM Chris Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: >> >>> On 03/03/2015 01:17 AM, Victor Stinner wrote: >>> >> >> >>> > Maybe it's time to rename the math module to _math and create a >>> > math.py module, like _decimal/decimal? math.py should end with "from >>> > _math import *". >>> >>> +1 >>> >> >> What do folks think? If we're going to do this, I'll write isclose() in >> python. And I could do the work to split it out, too, I suppose. >> > > My vote -- as always -- is to do it in Python. If someone is sufficiently > motivated to re-implement in C then that's great, but I don't think it > should be required to be in C. > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org > > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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