From: Karen Tracey
I noticed when trying out Python's 2.6b2 release that the repr of Decimal has
changed since 2.5. On 2.5:
...
quotes were used whereas on 2.6b2:
...
single quotes are used. Searching around I see this was done in r60773 with
the log message:
Fix decimal repr which should have used single quotes like other reprs.
but I can't find any discussion other than that.
Guido requested this change so that the Decimal repr would match the style used
elsewhere (i.e. str(7) --> '7').
If it's here to stay, is there some straightforward way that I am unaware
of to construct tests that use Decimal repr but will work correctly on
Python 2.3-2.6?
A quick hack is to monkey patch the decimal module:
>>> import decimal
>>> decimal.Decimal.__repr__ = lambda s: 'Decimal("%s")' % str(s)
A better fix is to amend to doctests to not rely on the __repr__ format.
Instead of:
>>> Decimal('7.1')
Decimal("7.1")
use:
>>> print Decimal('7.1')
7.1
Raymond
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