Nick Coghlan added the comment: I would expect this to be a difference between the original pure Python implementation and the current C accelerated implementation.
The constraint is in alignment with the General Decimal Arithmetic Specification that the decimal module aims to implement, which requires that Emin and Emax define a balanced range about zero. (That is, Emin = -Emax +/- 1) The fact the pure Python implementation didn't enforce that constraint was an implementation detail - other implementations (including the cdecimal module, which was incorporated into the standard library to provide CPython's C accelerated version in Python 3.3) are free to enforce it. ---------- nosy: +ncoghlan, skrah resolution: -> not a bug stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue22900> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
