[Python-ideas] Python3.3 Decimal Library Released

[Antoine Pitrou]

Hello Mark,

Le 03/03/2014 16:41, Mark H. Harris a écrit :
> Greetings,
> Python3.3 Decimal Library v0.3 is Released here:
>
> https://code.google.com/p/pythondecimallibrary/
>
> pdeclib.py is the decimal library, pilib.py is the PI library.
>
> pdeclib.py  provides scientific and transcendental functions
> for the C Accelerated Decimal module written by Stefan Krah. The
> library is open source, GLPv3, comprised of two py files.
>
> My idea for python is to two things really, 1) make floating point
> decimal the default floating point type in python4.x, and 2) make
> these functions ( pdeclib.py ) or equiv available in python4.x by
> default.

If you want to contribute those functions to Python, the first required 
step would be to license them under terms compatible with the 
contributor agreement:
http://www.python.org/psf/contrib/contrib-form/

(i.e. under the Academic Free License v. 2.1 or the Apache License, 
Version 2.0)

Regards

Antoine.