Against PEP 240

[Alex Martelli]

"Oleg Broytmann" <phd at phd.fep.ru> wrote in message
news:mailman.991135091.17843.python-list at python.org...
> On Tue, 29 May 2001, Roman Suzi wrote:
> > I wonder, why at all need such things?  Are there any standard library
for
> > inf-precision in current Python version?  If so, was it tested long
> > enough?
> >
> > (If such standard library exists, please, remind me it's name. Thanks)
>
>    mpz -- GNU arbitrary magnitude integers. This is a wrapper for GNU mp
> (multiprecision) library.

But what does it deliver (apart from speed -- maybe a few extra
functions?) wrt Python's portable built-in "long"s?  I wrapped
GMP again (http://gmpy.sourceforge.net) to expose all functions,
and the mpr (rationals) and mpf (floating point) as well as mpz
(integer) unlimited-precision types.


Alex