Stefan Krah added the comment: The spec was the only reasonable choice at the time decimal.py was written. Incidentally, it is basically IEEE-754-2008 with arbitrary precision extensions; this isn't surprising since Mike Cowlishaw was on the IEEE committee and wrote the spec at the same time.
There are very few decNumber-specific remainders in the spec -- this may be one of those (though I did not bother to look up if the IEEE standard specifies formatting at all). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26223> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
