Hi Steven... thanks for your kind and extensive reply. Lots of good food for thought. I know it's easy to complain about lack of functionality, but it really was not my intention. Python is very cool as it is and I still know too little about it to even suggest anything. I just thought maybe I was missing something.
Sure it would make my life much easier if i had a full set of Decimal (c)math functions and I suppose there are quite a few folks who would like it as well. *** It's not that it's 100% necessary, it just makes things easier. *** Just the fact that at least 3 people already tried to write a decimal math module speaks for how desired and how difficult it is. It's really just the goniometric functions that I am missing most at the moment, so maybe I can figure it out with help of what you said plus the already existing imperfect modules. Meantime maybe this discussion will caught Guido's eye... ;-) And btw I do expect that Python becomes better than Mathematica one day because it's free and open :-) Maybe when Wolfram retires ;-) Thanks again! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list