Chris Spencer wrote: > Is there any library for Python that implements a kind of universal > number object. Something that, if you divide two integers, generates a > ratio instead of a float, or if you take the square root of a negative, > generates a complex number instead of raising an exception? Lisp has > something like this, and it makes number crunching much more convenient. > > Chris
If you are on any Unix-like platform, you might want to check out clnum. It works like the gmpy package but has complex versions of rationals and arbitrary precision floats. http://calcrpnpy.sourceforge.net/clnum.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
