Major change in the internal structure of the Decimal
number: now it does not store the mantissa as a tuple
of numbers, but as a string.
This avoids a lot of conversions, and achieves a
speedup of 40%. The API remains intact.
Thanks Mark Dickinson.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_decimal.py b/Lib/test/test_decimal.py
index 27d1aa6..dbe7023 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_decimal.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_decimal.py
@@ -464,6 +464,7 @@
self.assertRaises(ValueError, Decimal, (1, (4, 3, 4, None, 1), 2) )
self.assertRaises(ValueError, Decimal, (1, (4, -3, 4, 9, 1), 2) )
self.assertRaises(ValueError, Decimal, (1, (4, 10, 4, 9, 1), 2) )
+ self.assertRaises(ValueError, Decimal, (1, (4, 3, 4, 'a', 1), 2) )
def test_explicit_from_Decimal(self):