Alex Martelli wrote: > On Feb 27, 2007, at 2:59 AM, Daniel Nogradi wrote: > > > Hi Alex, > > > I did another test, this time with python 2.4 on suse and things are > > worse than in the previous case (which was python 2.5 on fedora 3), > > ouput of 'python gmp_test.py' follows: > > Interesting! gmpy interacts with decimal.Decimal by "monkey- > patching" that class on the fly; clearly the monkey-patching isn't > working with 2.4 on SuSE, so all the addition attempts are failing > (all 6 of them). > > So the issue is finding out why this strategy is failing there, while > succeeding on other Linux distros, Mac, and Windows.
This is a bug in Python's decimal module in release 2.4.0. It was fixed in release 2.4.1: http://svn.python.org/view?rev=38708&view=rev Ziga -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
