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Wed Mar 4 21:33:48 CET 2015 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2015-March/138618.html

In this case I disagree. The math module mostly wraps the C math library
and the bar should remain high for things to be added to it. Let this be
someone's opportunity to learn C (I guess not Chris's :-).

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

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> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 3:14 PM Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
>>
>>> On 03/03/2015 01:17 AM, Victor Stinner wrote:
>>>
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>>> > Maybe it's time to rename the math module to _math and create a
>>> > math.py module, like _decimal/decimal? math.py should end with "from
>>> > _math import *".
>>>
>>> +1
>>>
>>
>> What do folks think? If we're going to do this, I'll write isclose() in
>> python. And I could do the work to split it out, too, I suppose.
>>
>
> My vote -- as always -- is to do it in Python. If someone is sufficiently
> motivated to re-implement in C then that's great, but I don't think it
> should be required to be in C.
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[Python-Dev] PEP 485 review (isclose())