On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:47:42AM -0400, Mark Dickinson wrote: > 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.
http://bugs.python.org/issue2482 Oleg. -- Oleg Broytmann http://phd.pp.ru/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
