On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 3:50 AM, R. David Murray wrote:
> Thanks, your explanation seems to me to make a good case for making the
> decimal.py implementation less permissive.
Indeed. Since the current handling of Context in decimal.py violates
"Errors should never pass silently, unless explicitly
On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 19:17:11 +0200, Stefan Krah wrote:
> R. David Murray wrote:
> [snip a lot]
>
> Thank you, this cleared up many things.
Heh. Keep in mind that this is my viewpoint. I *think* Brett agrees
with me. I'm sure he'll speak up if he doesn't.
> The technical reason is that the c
R. David Murray wrote:
[snip a lot]
Thank you, this cleared up many things.
> > In the case of duck typing, the only solution I see is to lock down the
> > types in decimal.py, thus changing the API. This is one of the things that
> > should be decided *before* the PEP is accepted.
>
> Here yo
On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 12:14:51 +0200, Stefan Krah wrote:
> I'm not sure that I understand the duplication of effort: If there
> is a C module without a Python implementation in the stdlib, then
> the PyPy, Jython, and IronPython developers are free to cooperate
> and implement a single Python versio
R. David Murray wrote:
> > The PEP seems to be predicated on a notion that anything written in C is
> > bad and
> > that all testing is good. AFAICT, it doesn't provide any practical advice
> > to
> > someone pursuing a non-trivial project (such as decimal or threading). The
> > PEP
>
> Deci
Brett Cannon wrote:
> Now if people would actually support simply not accepting any more C modules
> into the Python stdlib (this does not apply to CPython's stdlib), then I'm all
> for that. I only went with the "accelerator modules are okay" route to help
> get
> acceptance for the PEP. But if
Brett Cannon wrote:
> Since they do not typically support the entire `C API of Python`_ they
> are unable to use the code used to create the module. Often times this
> leads these other VMs to either re-implement the modules in pure
> Python or in the programming language used to i
