On Feb 23, 10:39 am, Martin Manns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:52:06 -0600 > > Larry Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I quick search of Google turned up: > > >http://books.google.com/books?id=1Shx_VXS6ioC&pg=PA625&lpg=PA625&dq=p... > >http://calcrpnpy.sourceforge.net/clnum.html > >http://gmpy.sourceforge.net/ > > Sorry that I did not point these out initially. > > + clnum seems to be slower and for speed may be compiled to wrap gmp so > that it is just an additional layer between python and gmp . > > + gmpy is looking pretty unmaintained (dead) to me (newest update of > cvs 10 months ago).
Actually, gmpy is being maitained even if SourceForge isn't up to date. I got my gmpy 1.04a for Python 2.5 Windows binary from <http://home.comcast.net/~casevh> I haven't used the rationals all that much, but been very happy with them when I have. > > + boost indeed is a quite nice C++ library. However, I fear that I > would end up writing the python wrappers for operators (+ - * / min > max cmp etc.) myself. I would like to avoid this since these operators > should work correctly for any type (not just int and float) and I have > little experience with verifying such generic code. The problems > encountered in the mxNumber wrapper support this notion. > > Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
