[Python-Dev] PEP 485 review (isclose())

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Tue Mar 3 17:43:06 CET 2015


On 03/03/2015 01:17 AM, Victor Stinner wrote:
> 2015-03-03 6:25 GMT+01:00 Chris Barker :
>>
>> As far as I can tell, the math module is entirely a C extension. So I can:

>> 2) Write it in Python, and monkey-patch it in to the math module -- I
>> honestly have no idea how to do that, but as I can add a new name to the
>> math module after importing it, it should be doable --but I have no idea
>> where the code would go.

> Maybe it's time to rename the math module to _math and create a
> math.py module, like _decimal/decimal? math.py should end with "from
> _math import *".

+1

--
~Ethan~

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