On 25 March 2015 at 14:20, Larry Martell <larry.mart...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have an app that works with 2.6, but in 2.7 it is failing. I traced > it down to an issue with decimal.Decimal being passed a value of 0.0. > It 2.6 this is fine, but in 2.7 it throws an exception: > > TypeError: Cannot convert float to Decimal. First convert the float to a > string > > This is easy enough to deal with, but I find it odd. Is this a known issue?
Perhaps I've misunderstood but decimal.Decimal(0.0) works fine here: $ python2.7 Python 2.7.3 (default, Dec 18 2014, 19:10:20) [GCC 4.6.3] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import decimal >>> decimal.Decimal(0.0) Decimal('0') Oscar -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list