On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Skip Montanaro
<skip.montan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd not used the Decimal classes before, but some data I was receiving
> from a database via pyodbc came that way. In writing some test cases,
> I had a hard time making things work out. I eventually figure out what
> was going on:
>
>>>> import decimal, cdecimal
>>>> decimal.Decimal('2226.48') == cdecimal.Decimal('2226.48')
> False
>
> (apologies for any typos, can't copy/paste)
>
> This seems odd to me. I'm currently unable to make the comparison in
> my Python 3 env (Conda woes), but I have both decimal and cdecimal in
> my Python 2.7 env. Shouldn't these beasts compare equal?It seems like it, although I don't think they were ever intended to be used side-by-side. cdecimal isn't part of the standard library and is supposed to be a drop-in replacement. As of CPython 3.3, the decimal module *is* cdecimal. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
