Gmpy

[Carl Banks]

Alex Martelli wrote:
> Carl Banks wrote:
> 
>> Jean-Pierre Andreaux wrote:
>>> Gmpy module was a wrapper of the GNU MP library. It seems that no
>>> evolution is done on this module since 2001. Indeed, Gmpy is not
>>> supported in Python 2.2 nor 2.3.
>>> 
>>> My question is the following: what is the better replacement solution
>>> for manipulating long numbers. I want to do long numbers
>>> exponentiations. Thanks in advance for your answers.
>> 
>> 
>> An alternative is egenix mxNumber package, still in beta stage.
>> 
>> http://www.egenix.com/files/python/mxNumber.html
>> 
>> I couldn't use gmpy because I needed floating point, and mxNumber also
>> wraps the floating point functionality.  It seemed to work ok.
> 
> gmpy also wraps the floating-point functionality of GMP:
> 
>>>> print gmpy.mpf(7,99)/3
> 2.333333333333333333333333333333333333333


I'm sorry--I was thinking of the mpz module.  I remember looking at
gmpy but passed on it for some reason--probably something silly.  In
any case, mxNumber worked well enough so I stuck with it.


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CARL BANKS
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