[issue1516613] Decimal should allow leading or trailing spaces.

2008-01-11 Thread Mark Dickinson
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 -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed superseder: -> De

[issue1516613] Decimal should allow leading or trailing spaces.

2007-11-24 Thread Mark Dickinson
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