[Python-Dev] Decimal(unicode)

[Mark Dickinson]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 4:46 AM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:

>
> As Nick said, a drop-in replacement in C isn't feasible
>
> But probably users of decimal won't really care if they have to slightly
> adapt their code if they get the speed increase instead.
>

Could you give me an example of the sort of adaptations that might be
necessary, or the API changes that would be necessary to make a
drop-in replacement possible?

Are you just talking about things like removing the context argument
from __add__ and friends, or is it more serious than this?

Mark
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