Status of PEPs?
Aahz
aahz at pythoncraft.com
Fri Jul 9 21:02:31 EDT 2004
In article <10e58dpcbogogce at news.supernews.com>,
John Roth <newsgroups at jhrothjr.com> wrote:
>
>A good example of this is the work being done by Facundo Batista on PEP
>327 (Decimal Arithmetic). There's been widespread agreement for a long
>time that something should be done about decimal arithmetic, but until
>he stepped forward, it sat on dead center. Now it looks like we're
>going to get it for Python 2.4, so it may be possible for us to get a
>usable currency type in Python 2.5 (building on the decimal type.)
Just for the record, I actually started Decimal.py with a lot of help
from Tim Peters, and then Eric Price moved it forward quite a bit before
Facundo picked it up. I don't care that much about the credit for me,
but I think it's important to remember that Open Source projects are
usually the result of collaboration from many people.
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