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Revision cf47b3969e21f66655fcb414ff9bfdd503069c2d authored by Miss Islington (bot) on 29 November 2020, 09:58:01 UTC, committed by GitHub on 29 November 2020, 09:58:01 UTC 
bpo-39096: Improve description of 'e', 'f' and 'g' presentation types (GH-23537) (GH-23550)
 
* Improve description of 'e', 'f' and 'g' presentation types

* Drop the 'E' from Scientific 'E' notation; remove >= 0 qualifications

* Fix false statement that the alternate form is valid for Decimal

* Nitpick: remove the Harvard/Oxford comma

* Add note that the decimal point is also removed if no digits follow it, except in alternate form
(cherry picked from commit c642374b3ef72f6f300616f07aea2a3f9ed83e51)

Co-authored-by: Mark Dickinson <mdickinson@enthought.com>

Co-authored-by: Mark Dickinson <mdickinson@enthought.com>
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About
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_decimal.c is a wrapper for the libmpdec library. libmpdec is a fast C
library for correctly-rounded arbitrary precision decimal floating point
arithmetic. It is a complete implementation of Mike Cowlishaw/IBM's
General Decimal Arithmetic Specification.


Build process for the module
============================

As usual, the build process for _decimal.so is driven by setup.py in the top
level directory. setup.py autodetects the following build configurations:

   1) x64         - 64-bit Python, x86_64 processor (AMD, Intel)

   2) uint128     - 64-bit Python, compiler provides __uint128_t (gcc)

   3) ansi64      - 64-bit Python, ANSI C

   4) ppro        - 32-bit Python, x86 CPU, PentiumPro or later

   5) ansi32      - 32-bit Python, ANSI C

   6) ansi-legacy - 32-bit Python, compiler without uint64_t

   7) universal   - Mac OS only (multi-arch)


It is possible to override autodetection by exporting:

   PYTHON_DECIMAL_WITH_MACHINE=value, where value is one of the above options.


NOTE
====

decimal.so is not built from a static libmpdec.a since doing so led to
failures on AIX (user report) and Windows (mixing static and dynamic CRTs
causes locale problems and more).
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