[Python-Dev] Yearly PyPI breakage (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Wed May 4 22:12:19 EDT 2016

On 4 May 2016 at 13:44, <tritium-list at sdamon.com> wrote:

(Is cdecimal substantially different from the decimal added in 3.5?) AFAICT, they are unrelated codebases that do about the same thing with the same amount of performance, with the main exception that decimal in 3.5 does not require one to change their import (or to compile the package themselves.)

cdecimal and the standard library's _decimal module are built around the same decimal arithmetic library (libmpdec), and Stefan is the maintainer for all of them. Similar to other standard library modules with a PyPI counterpart, end users can choose between using the standard library version (and avoiding the external dependency) and using the independently updated version (and gaining increased consistency across Python versions, including availability on 2.7).

More info on that can be found in the Python 3.3 What's New doc: https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.3.html#new-decimal

Regards, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

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