[Python-Dev] PEP 485 review (isclose())

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Wed Mar 4 21:23:24 CET 2015


On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 3:14 PM Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
>
>> On 03/03/2015 01:17 AM, Victor Stinner wrote:
>>
>
>
>> > Maybe it's time to rename the math module to _math and create a
>> > math.py module, like _decimal/decimal? math.py should end with "from
>> > _math import *".
>>
>> +1
>>
>
> What do folks think? If we're going to do this, I'll write isclose() in
> python. And I could do the work to split it out, too, I suppose.
>

My vote -- as always -- is to do it in Python. If someone is sufficiently
motivated to re-implement in C then that's great, but I don't think it
should be required to be in C.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20150304/d2643082/attachment.html>


More information about the Python-Dev mailing list