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r74281 | mark.dickinson | 2009-08-02 11:59:36 +0100 (Sun, 02 Aug 2009) | 4 lines
Issue #6595: Allow Decimal constructor to accept non-European decimal
digits, as recommended by the specification. (Backport of r74279 from
py3k.)
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Library
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+- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode
+ decimal digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously
+ it was restricted to accepting [0-9].
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- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
containing incomplete data.