Hi Tim,
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 08:33:23PM -0500, Tim Peters wrote:
> >>> decimal.Decimal(-1) % decimal.Decimal("1e100")
> Decimal("-1")
BTW - isn't that case in contradiction with the general Python rule that
if b > 0, then a % b should return a number between 0 included and b
excluded? We try hard to do that for ints, longs and floats. The fact
that it works differently with Decimal could be unexpected.
A bientot,
Armin
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