Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment: I think the bug tracker is the wrong place to discuss such a wide- ranging and (currently) ill-specified change. The python-list or python-ideas mailing lists might be better places.
Decimal in the core is out of the question for Python 3.2, thanks to PEP 3003. What *is* feasible at this stage is to replace the current slow Python implementation of the decimal module with a C version; there's some ongoing work on that. Removing binary floats from the core entirely sounds like a bad idea to me, for performance reasons. And it probably couldn't be done before Python 4.x without breaking backwards compatibility. I'm closing this for now; if you're interested in this, please take the discussion to python-list or python-ideas. ---------- nosy: +mark.dickinson resolution: -> later status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7389> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
