<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Guido van Rossum <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:guido@python.org" target="_blank">guido@python.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">In this case I disagree. The math module mostly wraps the C math library and the bar should remain high for things to be added to it. Let this be someone's opportunity to learn C (I guess not Chris's :-).</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>As it happens, the first C code I ever wrote, beyond toy examples, was python extensions. I dropped that for Cython a good while ago, but I can remember enough for this simple function ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>I agree that it's not worth going to python for the math module for just this -- but others were proposing other reasons to do it.</div><div><br></div><div>Back to look at K&R ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>-Chris</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Brett Cannon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brett@python.org" target="_blank">brett@python.org</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span>On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 3:14 PM Chris Barker <<a href="mailto:chris.barker@noaa.gov" target="_blank">chris.barker@noaa.gov</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Ethan Furman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ethan@stoneleaf.us" target="_blank">ethan@stoneleaf.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 03/03/2015 01:17 AM, Victor Stinner wrote:<br><span></span></blockquote><div> </div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>> Maybe it's time to rename the math module to _math and create a<br>
> math.py module, like _decimal/decimal? math.py should end with "from<br>
> _math import *".<br>
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</span>+1<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>What do folks think? If we're going to do this, I'll write isclose() in python. And I could do the work to split it out, too, I suppose.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>My vote -- as always -- is to do it in Python. If someone is sufficiently motivated to re-implement in C then that's great, but I don't think it should be required to be in C.</div></div></div>
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