[issue24513] decimal test version mismatch

Stefan Krah added the comment: I'm saying that decimal has already been tested against the most recent test cases. For (non-technical) reasons that I don't want to go into right now, I'd prefer to postpone the update though. -- resolution: -> later status: open -> closed _

[issue24513] decimal test version mismatch

Rusi added the comment: On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Stefan Krah wrote: > > Stefan Krah added the comment: > > For libmpdec (and thus _decimal) I've always used the latest version > of dectest.zip. Upgrading decimaltestdata/* will not make any difference. > Not sure Stefan what you are say

[issue24513] decimal test version mismatch

Stefan Krah added the comment: For libmpdec (and thus _decimal) I've always used the latest version of dectest.zip. Upgrading decimaltestdata/* will not make any difference. -- nosy: +skrah ___ Python tracker _

[issue24513] decimal test version mismatch

New submission from Rusi: In http://bugs.python.org/issue24507 there was an apprehension about changing the decimal test versions. Poking around I find that the versions in headers of files in Lib/test/decimaltestdata refer to version 2.59 and the IBM link http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/decimal whi