ANN: Decimal.py 0.0.0

David LeBlanc whisper at oz.nospamnet
Sat May 19 14:24:24 EDT 2001


In article <9e3i46$8sj$1 at panix2.panix.com>, aahz at panix.com says...
> I've just finished stage one, addition and subtraction.  Stage two is
> conversion routines, multiplication, and unit tests.   Stage three is
> division.  Right now, I'm just throwing this out in case anyone really
> wants decimal arithmetic badly enough to try testing this; I don't
> expect serious testing until I finish stage two.
> 
> I'm not looking for any design critiques right now, just bug reports.
> 
> Decimal.py:
> 
> '''
> This is a first stab at a decimal arithmetic module based on the decimal
> arithmetic ANSI standard X3.274-1996.  It should work with Python 1.5.2
> and later.
> 
> Most of the information used to create this module was helpfully provided 
> by Mike Cowlishaw's work at
> http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/decimal/
> The rest comes from Tim Peters' FixedPoint.py, particularly the string
> conversion routine.
> 

Do you know about this decimal package?:
http://www.pobox.org.sg/home/ngps/fin/

Dave LeBlanc



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