Why gmp is not in the standard library?

[Brian Kelley]

Tim Churches wrote:
> Of course, someone would need to prepare Python-style docs, and someone
> would need to track GMP development and update the version included with
> Python at each release (the current gmpy developers perhaps) - thus I
> suspect it is more a resourcing issue than anything else. However, if
> some dead wood is ever removed from the Python standard library, I would
> love to see gmpy take its place. Thanks to the gmpy (and GMP) developer,
> BTW.

Isn't some of this work done?

http://www.lemburg.com/files/python/mxNumber.html

Brian