[Python-Dev] What happened to fixed point?

[Tim Peters]

;David LeBlanc]
> I was told that FixedPoint had a sponsor (if that's the right
> word) for 2.3.
> Did it not make it or did it just not get mentioned in the
> release notes for a2?

It's not in 2.3a2.  I assume Raymond couldn't make time for it.  I tried to,
but didn't get beyond submitting a doc patch to the SF fixedpoint project.
Staring at the code there, it became clear to me that it would consume more
time than I thought it would to finish it (e.g., the proliferation of
gimmicks to play with subclasses wasn't in the original, and offhand struck
me as a wrong thing to do; the mechanism for changing rounding mode also
seemed as thread-hostile as anything could be; and I still don't have time
to argue about it).  At this point, given that it would consume real time to
finish, if I had that time I'd rather devote it to moving Aahz's project
along for 2.4.