[Python-ideas] Decimal literal?
Facundo Batista
facundobatista at gmail.com
Thu Dec 4 21:07:19 CET 2008
2008/12/4 Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com>:
>> There're already some first steps in that direction, but *please*
>> investigate that other path you're suggesting.
>
> IMO, those efforts have been somewhat misdirected. They were
> going down the path of direct translation. Instead, there needs to
> be a pure implementation of the spec, using better data structures
> and then separately adding python wrappers. The first component
> needs to have its own efficient context objects and fast, temporary
> accumulators. The latter should match the current API.
I actually was talking about the issue 2486, which is the first step
to "slowly, but steadily, replace parts of Decimal from Python to C as
needed."
I should have been more explicit, sorry for the confusion.
Regards,
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