gmpy moving to code.google.com

[Ziga Seilnacht]

Alex Martelli wrote:
> On Feb 27, 2007, at 2:59 AM, Daniel Nogradi wrote:
>
> > Hi Alex,
>
> > I did another test, this time with python 2.4 on suse and things are
> > worse than in the previous case (which was python 2.5 on fedora 3),
> > ouput of 'python gmp_test.py' follows:
>
> Interesting!  gmpy interacts with decimal.Decimal by "monkey-
> patching" that class on the fly; clearly the monkey-patching isn't
> working with 2.4 on SuSE, so all the addition attempts are failing
> (all 6 of them).
>
> So the issue is finding out why this strategy is failing there, while
> succeeding on other Linux distros, Mac, and Windows.

This is a bug in Python's decimal module in release 2.4.0. It was
fixed
in release 2.4.1:

http://svn.python.org/view?rev=38708&view=rev

Ziga