[Python-ideas] Make Python front end to the C math module

[Chris Barker - NOAA Federal]

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> Is there any reason to do this in advance of an actual requirement for
> it?

This was brought up last year when we added the isclose() function. In
fact Victor even whipped up an implementation.

Guido rejected the idea, and isclose() was implemented in C.

-CHB




> It seems to me that doing this when someone proposes a
> Python-coded math function would be fine. Or do you think that the
> fact that math is coded in C is stopping people even suggesting
> additions, because they believe they'd need to be able to write them
> in C?
>
> Paul
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