[ANNOUNCE] gmpy 1.0 alpha released

[Alex Martelli]

See http://gmpy.sourceforge.net/ for details.

What is it: a wrapper for the GMP library, to provide multi-precision
arithmetic for Python.  Multi-precision floats, and unbounded-precision
rationals, are not present in stock Python; multi-precision integers
('long') are, but gmpy's version of multi-precision integers is faster
for some operations (NOT all -- used to be, but Python 2.3 did serious
enhancements to some operations on longs) and provides lots of nifty
pre-packaged additional functions.

Minor changes and bug-fixes since the latest 0.9 pre-alpha; support for
Python 2.3.  The Windows binary release is now for Python 2.3 _only_ (if
you're stuck with Python 2.2 on Windows, you can keep using gmpy 0.9
pre-alpha and not really suffer from that).  Known bug on Windows: the
scan0 and scan1 functions appear broken (perhaps related to the lack of
a GMP 4.0 library for Windows -- haven't found one around yet).


Alex