On Apr 23, 9:23 am, Phlip <phlip2...@gmail.com> wrote: > When I use the CSV library, with QUOTE_NONNUMERIC, and when I pass in > a Decimal() object, I must convert it to a string.
Why must you? What unwanted effect do you observe when you don't convert it? > the search for an alternate CSV module, without > this bug, will indeed begin very soon! What bug? > I'm pointing out that QUOTE_NONNUMERIC would work better with an > option to detect numeric-as-string, and absolve it. That would allow > Decimal() to do its job, unimpeded. Decimal()'s job is to create an instance of the decimal.Decimal class; how is that being impeded by anything in the csv module? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list