about presicion

[Alex Martelli]

Mensanator <mensanator at aol.compost> wrote:

> >Subject: Re: about presicion
> >From: Peter Hansen peter at engcorp.com 
> >Date: 8/28/04 10:31 PM Central Daylight Time
> >Message-id: <JN6dnW6HuNiU06zcRVn-pA at powergate.ca>
> >
> >Ali wrote:
> >
> >> The decimal module comes with python 2.4? I have 2.3, :(, what do I do?
> >
> >The obvious answer is, well, obvious.  The real question is
> >what's stopping you from upgrading?
> 
> I just tried it and found out it's not compatible with gmpy.

By "it" do you mean Decimal, or Python 2.4 alpha 2?  I think gmpy should
build happily with the latter, and interoperate sensibly with Decimal
anyway -- as gmpy's author I'd be quite happy to fix gmpy if it's broken
in either respect.

> Of course, I wouldn't need gmpy to get big floats, but I
> would then lose all the math functions like linear congruence
> and modular inverse that my programs depend on.
> 
> So I, for one, will have to wait for the rest of the world to 
> catch up to 2.4.

2.4 is not currently recommended for production work (that's why it's in
Alpha -- very good for an alpha, but it's still not a final release).
But such support modules as gmpy need to get moving to support 2.4 in
order to be ready for it well before final release...


Alex