[Python-ideas] Floating point contexts in Python core

[Guido van Rossum]

> This all sounds very exciting, but also like a huge amount of work.

Indeed. But that's what we're here for.

Anyway, as an indication of the amount of work, you might want to look
at the fpectl module -- the module itself is tiny, but its
introduction required a huge amount of changes to every place where
CPython uses a double. I don't know if anybody uses it, though it's
still in the Py3k codebase.

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)