Python 2.7 issue with decimal value 0.0

[Ian Kelly]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 8:36 AM, Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 8:26 AM, Grant Edwards <invalid at invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> 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')
>
> I'm sorry, I missed typed. It works in 2.7, but not in 2.6:

"Changed in version 2.7: The argument to the constructor is now
permitted to be a float instance."

https://docs.python.org/2/library/decimal.html#decimal.Decimal