From: Brett C. <ba...@OC...> - 2002-12-06 07:12:56
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[Paul F Dubois] > We had put off consideration of PEP 242 Numeric kinds until June 2002 > when a meeting of some interested parties was to occur but the meeting > didn't occur. I have a draft implementation and users of it but my > feeling is that although correct and useful the PEP is not useful enough > to put it in the standard library. Since it really only interests > scientific programmers I propose simply making it a separate deliverable > on the Numeric site and withdrawing the PEP. > I say add it. If there are already users out there then that demonstrates as least some form of a demand. Besides, if rationals can get into the library (that module was finally accepted to be added to the library, right?) then a module to help do consistent decimal math should at least be included at least until the Python core can move to C99 (if I am remembering a comment from Tim saying that C99 adds more explicit numeric types, e.g., exactly 2 byte float). I just want to be able to add up a bunch of money values and not have a few pennies disappear in the end; usually I am the one who has to eat the loss and I am an poor college graduate who can't afford the rounding. =) -Brett |