[Python-Dev] SIGCHECK() in longobject.c (original) (raw)

Mark Dickinson dickinsm at gmail.com
Tue Oct 20 16:57:13 CEST 2009

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Eric Smith <eric at trueblade.com> wrote:

The code was working a few months ago (with all Decimal tests passing), but there have been some changes and bugfixes since then.  I might try to resurrect that code, dropping the Decimal type and just concentrating on Deccoeff. My only concern about this is the effect it would have on IronPython, Jython, PyPy, and other alternate implementations that use the stdlib.

Yes, that worries me a bit, too. I have the same worry with the idea of rewriting the entire decimal module in C.

The Deccoeff type is very simple, though. It would be easy to create a pure Python version of it, and then do something like:

try: from _decimal import Deccoeff # try to get C version except ImportError: from deccoeff import Deccoeff # else use Python fallback code.

Mark

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