New submission from GDR! <g...@go2.pl>: xmlrpc.client (and xmlrpclib in 2.x) can't serialize instances of Decimal, throwing TypeError instead. Because XML is a textual format, converting from decimal to float may cause loss of data.
According to http://www.xmlrpc.com/spec, encoding Decimal as XML-RPC <double /> is allowed: "The range of allowable values is implementation-dependent, is not specified." Therefore, including decimal numbers that can not be represented by IEEE double is allowed by the spec. Also, in my opinion, making a numeric type available in standard library unsupported by another part of standard library, is counterintuitive, but it's just my personal point of view. I can provide a patch if this bug report is considered proper. ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 127651 nosy: gdr priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Serialization of decimal.Decimal to XML-RPC type: behavior versions: Python 3.1 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11084> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
