Use of GMPY

[Alex Martelli]

"Maan Hamze" <mmhamze at pleiades.net> wrote in message
news:ilPk7.217241$g_3.41893539 at typhoon.austin.rr.com...
> I have never used GMPY, but it is not always the case that *.pyd files
> should go into the DLL subdirectory.  It may be the way that GMPY is being
> imported where the problem lies.
> Does GMPY have a setup script?  Maybe you are copying the PYD's into
places
> where GMPY can not find them.

A setup.py is part of the *source* distribution of GMPY.  The
windows-binaries package, provided as a convenience to Windows
users, is made up of just two .PYD's which, if one wishes, may
well be "installed" by copying them anywhere Python will find
them.  HOWEVER, the 0.9 version is built for Python 2.0; in
response to the original post, I've released a 0.9a21 that is
basically identical BUT built for Python 2.1.

Note that one needs the source distribution anyway, because
that's where the docs are (just a large textfile, at present),
as well as the unit-tests &c.  Yep, I _do_ need to come up
with slicker packaging at some point (presumably when I redo
the docs in a slicker format than plain text:-).


Alex