[Python-Dev] Backporting Decimal

[Raymond Hettinger]

> Decimal is a pretty stand alone module, and I'm absolutely sure that
> just backporting the whole module and its testcases will fix a lot of
> problems, and Py2.5 users will have new functionality, but is this ok?

Yes!  We have guaranteed that spec updates are to be treated as bug fixes and backported.  This is especially important in this case 
because other errors have been fixed and the test cases have grown.

Raymond