[Python-Dev] Decimal news (original) (raw)

Thomas Wouters thomas at python.org
Wed Sep 19 02:19:25 CEST 2007

On 9/13/07, Facundo Batista <facundobatista at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi people! After some months, Decimal is now in the trunk again. It's fully updated to the latest Cowlishaw specification, and complying with the latest test cases (from a few days ago, which even take in consideration some feedback from ours). I want to thank so much to Mark Dickinson, who made a lot of this work, not only the math part (he's a mathematician himself), but also a lot of cleaning and speeding up. Now we will put our hands in the documentation, for it to be 100% OK way before 2.6 arrives. Py3 will come after that.

Unfortunately, that's not how it works :-) If you check something into the trunk, it will be merged into Py3k sooner or later. I may ask the original submitter for assistance if it's incredibly hard to figure out the changes, but so far, I only had to do that with the SSL changes. The decimal changes are being merged as I write this (tests running now.) Is there anything in particular that needs to be done for decimal in Py3k, besides renaming div to truediv?

If you re-eally need to check something into the trunk that re-eally must not be merged into py3k, but you're afraid it's not going to be obvious to the merger, please record the change as 'merged' using "svnmerge merge -M -r". Please take care when picking the revision ;) You can also just email me or someone else you see doing merges, as I doubt this will be a common occurance.

-- Thomas Wouters <thomas at python.org>

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