On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Meador Inge wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Recently some discussion began in the issue 3132 thread
> (http://bugs.python.org/issue3132) regarding
> implementation of the new struct string syntax for PEP 3118. Mark Dickinson
> suggested that I bring the discussion on over to
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 1:39 AM, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Meador Inge wrote:
>
>> Even with the user-defined precision capabilities of the 'Decimal' class?
>> In other words, can I create an instance of a 'Decimal' that behaves (in
>> all operations: arithmetic, comparison, etc...) exactly as the exte
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:51 AM, Meador Inge wrote:
>
> Recently some discussion began in the issue 3132 thread
> (http://bugs.python.org/issue3132) regarding
> implementation of the new struct string syntax for PEP 3118. Mark Dickinson
> suggested that I bring the discussion on over to Python D
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Thomas Heller wrote:
> See issue 887237:
>
> http://bugs.python.org/issue887237
>
Thanks for the link Thomas. Since there is already interest in adding
arithmetic to ctypes, perhaps that is an option. One question that raises
in my mind, though, is should only
Meador Inge wrote:
Even with the user-defined precision capabilities of the 'Decimal'
class? In other words, can I create an instance of a 'Decimal' that
behaves (in all operations: arithmetic, comparison, etc...) exactly as
the extended double precision type offered by a given machine?
It'
Meador Inge schrieb:
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Greg Ewing
> wrote:
>
>> Meador Inge wrote:
>>
>> 3. Using Decimal keeps the desired precision,
>>>
>>
>> Well, sort of, but then you end up doing arithmetic in
>> decimal instead of binary, which could give different
>> results.
>>
>
> Ev
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Meador Inge wrote:
>
> 3. Using Decimal keeps the desired precision,
>>
>
> Well, sort of, but then you end up doing arithmetic in
> decimal instead of binary, which could give different
> results.
>
Even with the user-defined precision capabi
Meador Inge wrote:
3. Using Decimal keeps the desired precision,
Well, sort of, but then you end up doing arithmetic in
decimal instead of binary, which could give different
results.
Maybe the solution is to give ctypes long double objects
the ability to do arithmetic?
--
Greg
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Meador Inge schrieb:
> Hi All,
>
> Recently some discussion began in the issue 3132 thread (
> http://bugs.python.org/issue3132) regarding
> implementation of the new struct string syntax for PEP 3118. Mark Dickinson
> suggested that I bring the discussion on over to Python Dev. Below is a
> sum
On approximately 2/25/2010 8:51 PM, came the following characters from
the keyboard of Meador Inge:
Hi All,
Recently some discussion began in the issue 3132 thread
(http://bugs.python.org/issue3132) regarding
implementation of the new struct string syntax for PEP 3118. Mark
Dickinson
suggeste
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