[issue44267] Wrong PEP 515 parsing in decimal module (both C and Python versions)

[Mark Dickinson]

Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> added the comment:

> If this is not a bug - it should be adjusted

Standards Track PEPs are historical documents; it's quite common that an actual implementation ends up diverging from a PEP in small ways after the PEP is accepted, and we don't usually do post-hoc updates in those situations.

Possibly the decimal documentation could be updated, though.

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