On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Oleg Broytmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In 2.5.2 it prints > > <type 'str'> > <type 'unicode'> > > Why the change? Is it a bug or a feature? Shouldn't .to_eng_string() > always return a str?
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. Mark
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