[Python-Dev] RE: Adding decimal (aka FixedPoint) numbers to Python

[Aahz]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2002, Michael McLay wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 December 2002 12:34 am, Tim Peters wrote:
>> [Michael McLay]
>>>
>>> To bad the decNumber library from IBM is not open source.
>>
>> A Java implementation is open:
>>
>>     http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/decimalj/
> 
> That's great for jython, but it will require more work for the C Python 
> implementation.

Much of a first draft of a Python implementation is available at my Web
site.  Tim's jab at me ("fifteen years") is because it really needs to
be rewritten from scratch and refactored, and I haven't gotten the
mental traction to do it.  Currently it does all the basics other than
division (which is when I realized that it needed rewriting).
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