[Edu-sig] OK, time for 2.4

[Kirby Urner]

Thank you Gregor.  I am not used to the idea that the dialect, pegged to a
feature set and syntax, gets identified inside of later versions.  Now that
you point out how and why this makes perfect sense, I'm quite satisfied with
that thinking.  

Thanks again.

Kirby


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gregor Lingl [mailto:glingl at aon.at]
> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 2:03 PM
> To: Kirby Urner
> Cc: edu-sig at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] OK, time for 2.4
> 
> 
> 
> Kirby Urner schrieb:
> 
> >
> >
> >...
> >Wondering why, in the help string it says:
> >
> > DESCRIPTION
> >     This is a Py2.3 implementation of decimal floating point
> > arithmetic based on the General Decimal Arithmetic Specification:
> >
> >Why Py2.3?  Just an oversight?
> >
> >
> >
> No. It seems only to use features of python 2.3 (it's
> completely written in python). You may copy decimal.py to
> Python23/Lib and it will work with Python23 as well.
> Gregor
> 
> >Kirby
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