Re: [Python-Dev] Getting Set Up dev doc

2008-11-09 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brett Cannon wrote: Thanks to the flu that I am getting over I finally got around to start writing the dev docs I have been planning to author for years. The first one is how to get set up, with the draft at

Re: [Python-Dev] Feedback from numerical/math community on PEP 225

2008-11-09 Thread Leif Walsh
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:01 PM, Fernando Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a while back there was a discussion about new operators for the language, which ended in people mentioning that the status of PEP 225 was still undecided and that it was the most likely route to consider in this

Re: [Python-Dev] Optionally using GMP to implement long if available

2008-11-09 Thread Tim Peters
[Tim Peters] .. Whenever two digits are multiplied, the code intends to cast (at least) one of them to twodigits first (if you ever see a spot where this doesn't happen, it's a bug). [Mark Dickinson] There are indeed one or two spots that seem to be missing a cast, for example the line rem

Re: [Python-Dev] Optionally using GMP to implement long if available

2008-11-09 Thread Greg Ewing
Tim Peters wrote: because /knowing/ whether it works requires staring at generated code, there's probably no sane way to automate detection of when, if, and under what conditions it breaks. Maybe it could be tested by compiling two small test programs, one using (uint64_t)my_uint32 *