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[Python-Dev] Decimal(unicode)

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Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> If people agree it's a bug, please do fix it.

It looks like a bug to me.

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