> I'd call this a bug. The change is an accident, a side-effect of the fact > that in 2.5.1 the coefficient (mantissa) of a Decimal was stored as a > tuple, and in 2.5.2 it's stored as a string (which greatly improves > efficiency). > Clearly in 2.5.2 the mantissa is being stored as a unicode instance in the > second case; it should be explicitly coerced to str in Decimal.__new__. > > If others agree that it's a bug, I'll fix it.
If people agree it's a bug, please do fix it. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
