New submission from Mark Dickinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: The IBM General Decimal Arithmetic Specification, on which the decimal module is based, has recently been updated to version 1.68; the testcases from IBM have also been updated.
The comments in the decimal module clearly state that the decimal module should be kept in sync with the IBM specification, and that deviation from the spec is considered a bug. So it seems to me that the decimal module should be updated, preferably before 2.6 and 3.0 come out. As far as I can tell the required changes should be minimal: max- magnitude and min-magnitude definitely need changing, and there may be other minor changes necessary to make the new tests pass; I haven't looked properly yet. I'll try to get to this in the next few days. ---------- assignee: marketdickinson components: Library (Lib) messages: 70284 nosy: facundobatista, marketdickinson, rhettinger priority: critical severity: normal status: open title: Update decimal module to version 1.68 of the IBM specification type: behavior versions: Python 2.6, Python 3.0 _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3449> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
