[Python-Dev] Decimal(unicode)

[Facundo Batista]

2008/3/25, Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com>:

>
> I'd call this a bug.  The change is an accident, a side-effect of the fact
>  that in 2.5.1 the coefficient (mantissa) of a Decimal was stored as a
>  tuple, and in 2.5.2 it's stored as a string (which greatly improves efficiency).
>  Clearly in 2.5.2 the mantissa is being stored as a unicode instance in the
>  second case;  it should be explicitly coerced to str in Decimal.__new__.
>
>  If others agree that it's a bug, I'll fix it.
>

+1

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