ANN: Decimal.py 0.0.0

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <9e6doo$eb5$o at 216.39.170.247>,
David LeBlanc  <whisper at oz.nospamnet> wrote:
>
>> This is a first stab at a decimal arithmetic module based on the decimal
>> arithmetic ANSI standard X3.274-1996.  It should work with Python 1.5.2
>> and later.
>> 
>> Most of the information used to create this module was helpfully provided 
>> by Mike Cowlishaw's work at
>> http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/decimal/
>> The rest comes from Tim Peters' FixedPoint.py, particularly the string
>> conversion routine.
>
>Do you know about this decimal package?:
>http://www.pobox.org.sg/home/ngps/fin/

It appears to be essentially the same as FixedPoint.py, using longs for
the integer part.  It doesn't actually do true decimal arithmetic.
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