[Python-ideas] Consider making Decimal's context use PEP 567

Nathaniel Smith njs at pobox.com
Wed Feb 7 17:32:21 EST 2018


On Feb 7, 2018 1:54 PM, "Neil Girdhar" <mistersheik at gmail.com> wrote:

Decimal could just pull its Context object from a context variable rather
than having to pass it in to all functions.  This would be similar to how
numpy works.


Decimal has always used a thread local context the same way numpy does, and
in 3.7 it's switching to use a PEP 567 context:

https://bugs.python.org/issue32630

-n
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