On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Meador Inge mead...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
Recently some discussion began in the issue 3132 thread
(http://bugs.python.org/issue3132) regarding
implementation of the new struct string syntax for PEP 3118. Mark Dickinson
suggested that I bring the
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:51 AM, Meador Inge mead...@gmail.com wrote:
Recently some discussion began in the issue 3132 thread
(http://bugs.python.org/issue3132) regarding
implementation of the new struct string syntax for PEP 3118. Mark Dickinson
suggested that I bring the discussion on
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 1:39 AM, Greg Ewing greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz wrote:
Meador Inge wrote:
Even with the user-defined precision capabilities of the 'Decimal' class?
In other words, can I create an instance of a 'Decimal' that behaves (in
all operations: arithmetic, comparison, etc...)
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Thomas Heller thel...@ctypes.org wrote:
See issue 887237:
http://bugs.python.org/issue887237
Thanks for the link Thomas. Since there is already interest in adding
arithmetic to ctypes, perhaps that is an option. One question that raises
in my mind, though,
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Greg Ewing greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nzwrote:
Meador Inge wrote:
3. Using Decimal keeps the desired precision,
Well, sort of, but then you end up doing arithmetic in
decimal instead of binary, which could give different
results.
Even with the
Meador Inge schrieb:
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Greg Ewing
greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nzwrote:
Meador Inge wrote:
3. Using Decimal keeps the desired precision,
Well, sort of, but then you end up doing arithmetic in
decimal instead of binary, which could give different
results.
Meador Inge wrote:
Even with the user-defined precision capabilities of the 'Decimal'
class? In other words, can I create an instance of a 'Decimal' that
behaves (in all operations: arithmetic, comparison, etc...) exactly as
the extended double precision type offered by a given machine?
Meador Inge wrote:
3. Using Decimal keeps the desired precision,
Well, sort of, but then you end up doing arithmetic in
decimal instead of binary, which could give different
results.
Maybe the solution is to give ctypes long double objects
the ability to do arithmetic?
--
Greg
Hi All,
Recently some discussion began in the issue 3132 thread (
http://bugs.python.org/issue3132) regarding
implementation of the new struct string syntax for PEP 3118. Mark Dickinson
suggested that I bring the discussion on over to Python Dev. Below is a
summary
of the questions\comments
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Hi All,
Recently some discussion began in the issue 3132 thread
(http://bugs.python.org/issue3132) regarding
implementation of the new struct string syntax for PEP 3118. Mark
Dickinson
Meador Inge schrieb:
Hi All,
Recently some discussion began in the issue 3132 thread (
http://bugs.python.org/issue3132) regarding
implementation of the new struct string syntax for PEP 3118. Mark Dickinson
suggested that I bring the discussion on over to Python Dev. Below is a
summary
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