patch in Python?

[Paul Rubin]

Fernando Pérez <fperez528 at yahoo.com> writes:
> > [1] http://www.tc.umn.edu/~ringx004/mapm-main.html
> ...
> - How does this compare to gmpy?
> 
> - Do you have any plans to bind this into Numeric? That would be absolutely 
> fantastic. One of the things which keeps us bound to Mathematica here is the 
> need for arbitrary precision algorithms. With Numeric being extended to 
> arbitrary precision, we'd have a great system.

Looking at the docs I don't see any features that gmpy doesn't have.
I think it would be better to use gmpy, which is widely used, has
assembly language optimizations for many cpu's, etc.