On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 12:32 AM, Sebastian Berg <sebastian@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> >> Plus we hope that many use cases for object arrays will soon be
> >> supplanted by better dtype support, so now may not be the best time to
> >> invest heavily in making object arrays complicated and powerful.Well, what I mean is. A
 
`Decimal` will probably never know about numpy
itself. So I was wondering if you should teach numpy the other way
around about it.

indeed -- but the way to do that is to create a Decimal dtype -- if we have the "better dtype support", then that shouldn't be hard to do.

-CHB


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