[issue43177] How to use `long double` as a PyObject?

[Ganesh Kathiresan]

Ganesh Kathiresan <ganesh3597 at gmail.com> added the comment:

Oh I see. Yeah my ask is particularly around support for long double precision in python. What I am trying to do is essentially attempt to speed up the comparison of NumPy scalars: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/17970. 

We have support for float128 in NumPy, but when I was trying to cast it to a C variable, was having a hard time doing so without losing precision.

Please feel free to close the issue, hopefully will see long double support sometime in the future.

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