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Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 07:44:01 -0800
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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~