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<P><FONT SIZE=2>[Richard Hanson]</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>#- I just dropped decimal.py from 2.4's Lib dir into 2.3.4's Lib dir.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>#- Seems to work. Any gotchas with this route?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>No. It's the way to go.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I'm preparing an installer for the module, but all it'll do is that (and give you docs and the files to make the tests if you want).</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>#- By the way, I got decimal.py revision 1.24 from CVS several days ago</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>#- and noted a speedup of over an order of magnitude -- almost</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>#- twenty-five times faster with this simple snippet </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>#- calculating a square</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>#- root to 500 decimal places. :-) </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>We're working on that, :)</FONT>
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