[Python-Dev] Decimal(unicode)

[Greg Ewing]

Nick Coghlan wrote:
> I believe the list of incompatibilities and kludges and the subsequent 
> comments in the following file give the gist of the problems:
> http://svn.python.org/projects/sandbox/trunk/decimal-c/_decimal.c

It sounds like some aspects of the API weren't thought
through very well when the Python version was designed.

The question now is whether to fix the API design, or
leave it to become entrenched and lose all hope of
ever having a fully C-coded implementation.

-- 
Greg