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On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

> 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 :-).
>

As it happens, the first C code I ever wrote, beyond toy examples, was
python extensions. I dropped that for Cython a good while ago, but  I can
remember enough for this simple function ;-)

I agree that it's not worth going to python for the math module for just
this -- but others were proposing other reasons to do it.

Back to look at K&R ;-)

-Chris

> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 3:14 PM Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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:
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> > 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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