Mateusz Rukowicz wrote:
Grzegorz Makarewicz wrote:
Python in high aritmetic - nice, but in standard ? - using computation effective representation as in this "demand" should be put as *must* have ? in standard python ? - decimal with it's speed is sufficient - if U need more speed use more spohisticated data structures - numpy/scipy ... - I dont like those additions to python standard.
First of all C Decimal isn't meant to be substitute to numpy in any way. Second of all, I don't think numpy/scipy is an alternative to Decimal - it is more complicated, and I am not even sure if it supports Decimal arithmetic (which is crucial for financial application ie.).
[I couldn't find on google whether scipy supports decimal arithmetic, so I assumed it doesn't because of name '*scientific* tools for python'. However, if it supports - ignore following text block]
You are right. We have no tools in numpy or scipy for decimal arithmetic. The focus of numpy is arrays. This decimal module is complementary to numpy and vice versa. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco