Mark Dickinson added the comment: > read-only interface: > > x.sign -> 0 or 1 (perhaps even 1 or -1) > x.coeff -> Python integer > x.exp -> Python integer
The only slightly awkward thing with this (for high-precision decimals) is the quadratic conversion (well, okay, perhaps subquadratic depending on what algorithms are being used, but still ...) required to get from the decimal coefficient to a Python integer, and vice versa. It may be better to use a (byte)string of digits instead of a Python integer for the coefficient. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15882> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
