[Python-Dev] Strategy for converting the decimal module to C

[Lisandro Dalcin]

On 7/18/06, Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote:
> [Raymond Hettinger]
> > ...
> > If the current approach gets in their way, the C implementers should feel free to
> > make an alternate design choice.
>
> I expect they will, eventually.  Converting this to C is a big job,
> and at the NFS sprint we settled on an "incremental" strategy allowing
> most of the module to remain written in Python, converting methods to
> C one at a time.  Changing the user-visible API is a hard egg to
> swallow, and it's unfortunate that the Python code used a dict to hold
> "flags" to begin with.  The dict doesn't just record whether an
> exception has occurred, it also counts how many times the exception
> occurred.  It's possible that someone, somewhere, has latched on to
> that as "a feature".

Why not a 'cDecimal' module instead?


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