Dec. 4, 2008
8 a.m.
From: "Chris Rebert" <clp@rebertia.com>
With Python 3.0 being released, and going over its many changes, I was reminded that decimal numbers (decimal.Decimal) are still relegated to a library and aren't built-in.
Has there been any thought to adding decimal literals and making decimal a built-in type?
It's a non-starter until there is a fast, clean C implementation of decimal. The current module is hundreds of times slower than binary floats. Raymond