Mark Dickinson added the comment:
I spoke too soon. This came up again in the discussion for issue #1780
and there was general support for allowing trailing and leading
whitespace.
Fixed for Python 2.6, revision 59929
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resolution: -> fixed
status: open -> closed
superseder: -> De
Mark Dickinson added the comment:
This is a feature request rather than a bug. There's a least one good
reason not to do this, namely that the specification on which the decimal
module is based specifically disallows this: At
http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/decimal/daconvs.html
it says: "No bl