https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/commits/ca028ddd795f9545486b3f72612d6bc1572d8b14

On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 4:09 AM Florian Lindner <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Am Freitag, 26. April 2019, 19:24:12 CEST schrieb Martin Michlmayr:
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> > * Florian Lindner <[email protected]> [2019-04-26 10:14]:
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> > >
> https://aumayr.github.io/beancount-docs-static/api_reference/beancount.core.html?highlight=link#beancount.core.number.D
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> > > "Convert a string, possibly with commas, into a Decimal object."
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> > > but the documentation seems wrong or misleading.
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> > It's not wrong per se (although I can see how it can be viewed as
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> > misleading if you're used to comma decimal separators). The comma is
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> > used to separate thousands, e.g. 1,000,000.00 is one million.
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> > beancount will handle that correctly.
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> > > D() seems to just swallow the comma, not use it as decimal separator
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> > Because comma decimal separators are currently not supported, see
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> > https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/issues/204
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> That's fair and I am ok without having support for the comma as decimal
> separator. Actually, I was not even expecting it, until I read the doc
> string. I think, if the documentation would be like
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> "Convert a string, possibly with commas as thousands separator, into a
> Decimal object."
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> it was more clear.
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> Best,
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> Florian
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