python decimals

[Mark Dickinson]

On Sep 15, 2:27 am, Andrew Svetlov <andrew.svet... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there some kind of python binding for decNumber library?
> Standard decimal.Decimal is good enough, but very slow.
> My current project toughly coupled with 'currency' operations and we
> have performance problems related to decimal calculations.
> From my perspective decNumber is fast and has well wide domain to
> represent and process all required set of numbers - we don't need to
> work with 'almost infinite numbers' as python decimal can.
> I tried to google for desired binding - but found nothing.
> gmpy is interesting project, but supported types is not exactly what
> we need - rationals and big floats is not decimals in fixed point
> notation.
> My team discussed about making own python binding of decNumber - but
> before we start this task I like to ask python community: is there
> existing implementation? I don't want to invent the wheel again.

As far as I know, no such bindings exist.  There have been various
efforts to rewrite the decimal module in C, but (again as far as I
know) none of those efforts have come to fruition yet.

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Mark