Request for Python "decimal" class

[Randolph]

(If the class is already available and I missed it when I looked, please ignore this.)

I recently wanted to be able to round floating point numbers to 10 digits of precision, and the "decimal" class was the first thing I thought of. It didn't seem to be available, so I wrote an awful hack instead, and I hope it works.

I would really appreciate having the Python "decimal" class. For predictable arithmetic there is nothing like it.

[Steve Baer]

Hi Randolph,
This appears to already work

Python Code:

from decimal import *
print Decimal(1)/Decimal(7)

[Randolph]

D'oh! I'll confirm this when I get my desktop system back from running simulations.

[Randolph]

Right you are. Apparently "decimal" isn't in the Rhino Python Editor's list of modules, but once it's imported, it works just fine.