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  r74723 | mark.dickinson | 2009-09-08 21:20:19 +0100 (Tue, 08 Sep 2009) | 3 lines

  Issue #6857: Fix Decimal formatting to be consistent with existing float
  formatting:  both are now right-aligned by default.
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 Library
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+- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal
+  instances.
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 - Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of
   returning NaN or raising InvalidContext.  Also, fix infinite recursion
   in long(Decimal('nan')).