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

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Tue Oct 20 22:54:53 CEST 2009

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 07:57, Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> wrote:

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.

And this is why you shouldn't have to worry. As long as the tests exercise both the pure Python and C versions then the other VMs are covered.

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