Merged revisions 59921-59932 via svnmerge from
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  r59923 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-11 19:04:55 +0100 (Fri, 11 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Speed-up and simplify code urlparse's result objects.
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  r59924 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-11 20:33:24 +0100 (Fri, 11 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Bug #1790: update link; remove outdated paragraph
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  r59925 | thomas.heller | 2008-01-11 20:34:06 +0100 (Fri, 11 Jan 2008) | 5 lines

  Raise an error instead of crashing with a segfault when a NULL
  function pointer is called.

  Will backport to release25-maint.
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  r59927 | thomas.heller | 2008-01-11 21:29:19 +0100 (Fri, 11 Jan 2008) | 4 lines

  Fix a potential 'SystemError: NULL result without error'.
  NULL may be a valid return value from PyLong_AsVoidPtr.

  Will backport to release25-maint.
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  r59928 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-12 00:25:18 +0100 (Sat, 12 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Update the opcode docs for STORE_MAP and BUILD_MAP
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  r59929 | mark.dickinson | 2008-01-12 02:56:00 +0100 (Sat, 12 Jan 2008) | 4 lines

  Issue 1780: Allow leading and trailing whitespace in Decimal constructor,
  when constructing from a string. Disallow trailing newlines in
  Context.create_decimal.
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  r59930 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-12 11:53:29 +0100 (Sat, 12 Jan 2008) | 3 lines

  Move OSError docs to exceptions doc, remove obsolete descriptions
  from os docs, rework posix docs.
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  r59931 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-12 14:47:57 +0100 (Sat, 12 Jan 2008) | 3 lines

  Patch #1700288: Method cache optimization, by Armin Rigo, ported to
  2.6 by Kevin Jacobs.
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  r59932 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-12 17:11:09 +0100 (Sat, 12 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix editing glitch.
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diff --git a/Lib/decimal.py b/Lib/decimal.py
index 434930a..5e1b16b 100644
--- a/Lib/decimal.py
+++ b/Lib/decimal.py
@@ -524,6 +524,8 @@
         Decimal("314")
         >>> Decimal(Decimal(314))        # another decimal instance
         Decimal("314")
+        >>> Decimal('  3.14  \\n')        # leading and trailing whitespace okay
+        Decimal("3.14")
         """
 
         # Note that the coefficient, self._int, is actually stored as
@@ -539,7 +541,7 @@
         # From a string
         # REs insist on real strings, so we can too.
         if isinstance(value, str):
-            m = _parser(value)
+            m = _parser(value.strip())
             if m is None:
                 if context is None:
                     context = getcontext()
@@ -3542,7 +3544,16 @@
         return rounding
 
     def create_decimal(self, num='0'):
-        """Creates a new Decimal instance but using self as context."""
+        """Creates a new Decimal instance but using self as context.
+
+        This method implements the to-number operation of the
+        IBM Decimal specification."""
+
+        if isinstance(num, str) and num != num.strip():
+            return self._raise_error(ConversionSyntax,
+                                     "no trailing or leading whitespace is "
+                                     "permitted.")
+
         d = Decimal(num, context=self)
         if d._isnan() and len(d._int) > self.prec - self._clamp:
             return self._raise_error(ConversionSyntax,
@@ -5157,7 +5168,7 @@
         (?P<diag>\d*)         # with (possibly empty) diagnostic information.
     )
 #    \s*
-    $
+    \Z
 """, re.VERBOSE | re.IGNORECASE).match
 
 _all_zeros = re.compile('0*$').match