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Re: A possible change to decimal.Decimal?

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Jeff Beardsley wrote:
> The problem with that though:  I am not calling reload(), except to 
> recreate the error as implemented by the web frameworks.
> 
> I am also unlikely to get a patch accepted into several different 
> projects, where this is ONE project, and it's a simple change

Simple -- maybe.

Appropriate -- no.

It is unfortunate that those frameworks have that bug, but it is not up 
to Decimal to fix it for them.

~Ethan~

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A possible change to decimal.Decimal? Jeff Beardsley <jbeard565@gmail.com> - 2012-03-02 14:46 -0800
  Re: A possible change to decimal.Decimal? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2012-03-02 15:49 -0800
    Re: A possible change to decimal.Decimal? "A. Lloyd Flanagan" <A.Lloyd.Flanagan@gmail.com> - 2012-03-04 04:37 -0800
    Re: A possible change to decimal.Decimal? "A. Lloyd Flanagan" <A.Lloyd.Flanagan@gmail.com> - 2012-03-04 04:37 -0800
      Re: A possible change to decimal.Decimal? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2012-03-04 07:38 -0800
  Re: A possible change to decimal.Decimal? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2012-03-04 07:44 -0800

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