Python 2.7 issue with decimal value 0.0

[Grant Edwards]

On 2015-03-25, Larry Martell <larry.martell at 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?

$ python
Python 2.7.9 (default, Jan  2 2015, 09:51:10) 
[GCC 4.8.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import decimal
>>> decimal.Decimal(0)
Decimal('0')
>>> decimal.Decimal(0.0)
Decimal('0')
>>> decimal.Decimal('0')
Decimal('0')
>>> 


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