Raymond Hettinger <rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:
FWIW, I'm currently seeking project sponsorship to work on this. To do it right, a substantial portion of the module should be coded in C and needs to function independently of Python, with accessors provided to for Python to wrap around. Once, there is a fast C version, a discussion of a decimal literal can become a reasonable possibility. It will be an uphill battle though. Many decimal apps have few internal constants -- most of the data comes into the program from and external source and gets written back. A literal itself doesn't have much utility except for playing around at the command line. Also, there would need to be a PEP talking about how decimals should interact with binary floats and the rest of the language (which pretty much ignores decimals). ---------- priority: high -> normal _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2486> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
