a) Checking that replacing the relevant "raise TypeError" calls in Lib/Decimal.py with "return NotImplemented" gives you friendlier behaviour.
It turns out this isn't really practical - there's too much code in the module relying on those TypeErrors being raised.
So this may change for Python 2.5 (I think it's a genuine bug), but you're probably stuck with it for 2.4 (since changing it is a big enough semantic change to break code in the same module, so who knows what it would do to user code).
Bugger :(
Cheers, Nick.
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