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r60618 | walter.doerwald | 2008-02-06 15:31:55 +0100 (Wed, 06 Feb 2008) | 6 lines
Remove month parameter from Calendar.yeardatescalendar(),
Calendar.yeardays2calendar() and Calendar.yeardayscalendar() as the methods
don't have such a parameter. Fixes issue #2017.
Rewrap content to 80 chars.
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r60622 | facundo.batista | 2008-02-06 20:28:49 +0100 (Wed, 06 Feb 2008) | 4 lines
Fixes issue 1959. Converted tests to unittest.
Thanks Giampaolo Rodola.
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r60626 | thomas.heller | 2008-02-06 21:29:17 +0100 (Wed, 06 Feb 2008) | 3 lines
Fixed refcounts and error handling.
Should not be merged to py3k branch.
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r60630 | mark.dickinson | 2008-02-06 23:10:50 +0100 (Wed, 06 Feb 2008) | 4 lines
Issue 1979: Make Decimal comparisons (other than !=, ==) involving NaN
raise InvalidOperation (and return False if InvalidOperation is trapped).
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r60632 | mark.dickinson | 2008-02-06 23:25:16 +0100 (Wed, 06 Feb 2008) | 2 lines
Remove incorrect usage of :const: in documentation.
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r60634 | georg.brandl | 2008-02-07 00:45:51 +0100 (Thu, 07 Feb 2008) | 2 lines
Revert accidental changes to test_queue in r60605.
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r60636 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-07 01:54:20 +0100 (Thu, 07 Feb 2008) | 1 line
Issue 2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() to follow the ABC in collections.Sequence.
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r60637 | mark.dickinson | 2008-02-07 02:14:23 +0100 (Thu, 07 Feb 2008) | 2 lines
Fix broken link in decimal documentation.
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r60638 | mark.dickinson | 2008-02-07 02:42:06 +0100 (Thu, 07 Feb 2008) | 3 lines
IEEE 754 should be IEEE 854; give precise reference for
comparisons involving NaNs.
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r60639 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-07 03:12:52 +0100 (Thu, 07 Feb 2008) | 1 line
Return ints instead of longs for tuple.count() and tuple.index().
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r60640 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-07 04:10:33 +0100 (Thu, 07 Feb 2008) | 1 line
Merge 60627.
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r60641 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-07 04:25:46 +0100 (Thu, 07 Feb 2008) | 1 line
Merge r60628, r60631, and r60633. Register UserList and UserString will the appropriate ABCs.
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r60642 | brett.cannon | 2008-02-07 08:47:31 +0100 (Thu, 07 Feb 2008) | 3 lines
Cast a struct to a void pointer so as to do a type-safe pointer comparison
(mistmatch found by clang).
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r60643 | brett.cannon | 2008-02-07 09:04:07 +0100 (Thu, 07 Feb 2008) | 2 lines
Remove unnecessary curly braces around an int literal.
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r60644 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-02-07 12:43:47 +0100 (Thu, 07 Feb 2008) | 1 line
Update URL
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r60645 | facundo.batista | 2008-02-07 17:16:29 +0100 (Thu, 07 Feb 2008) | 4 lines
Fixes issue 2026. Tests converted to unittest. Thanks
Giampaolo Rodola.
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r60646 | christian.heimes | 2008-02-07 18:15:30 +0100 (Thu, 07 Feb 2008) | 1 line
Added some statistics code to dict and list object code. I wanted to test how a larger freelist affects the reusage of freed objects. Contrary to my gut feelings 80 objects is more than fine for small apps. I haven't profiled a large app yet.
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r60648 | facundo.batista | 2008-02-07 20:06:52 +0100 (Thu, 07 Feb 2008) | 6 lines
Fixes Issue 1401. When redirected, a possible POST get converted
to GET, so it loses its payload. So, it also must lose the
headers related to the payload (if it has no content any more,
it shouldn't indicate content length and type).
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r60649 | walter.doerwald | 2008-02-07 20:30:22 +0100 (Thu, 07 Feb 2008) | 3 lines
Clarify that the output of TextCalendar.formatmonth() and
TextCalendar.formatyear() for custom instances won't be influenced by calls
to the module global setfirstweekday() function. Fixes #2018.
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r60651 | walter.doerwald | 2008-02-07 20:48:34 +0100 (Thu, 07 Feb 2008) | 3 lines
Fix documentation for Calendar.iterweekdays(): firstweekday is a property.
Fixes second part of #2018.
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r60653 | walter.doerwald | 2008-02-07 20:57:32 +0100 (Thu, 07 Feb 2008) | 2 lines
Fix typo in docstring for Calendar.itermonthdays().
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r60655 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-07 21:04:37 +0100 (Thu, 07 Feb 2008) | 1 line
The float conversion recipe is simpler in Py2.6
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r60657 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-07 21:10:49 +0100 (Thu, 07 Feb 2008) | 1 line
Fix typo
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r60660 | brett.cannon | 2008-02-07 23:27:10 +0100 (Thu, 07 Feb 2008) | 3 lines
Make sure a switch statement does not have repetitive case statements.
Error found through LLVM post-2.1 svn.
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r60661 | christian.heimes | 2008-02-08 01:11:31 +0100 (Fri, 08 Feb 2008) | 1 line
Deallocate content of the dict free list on interpreter shutdown
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r60662 | christian.heimes | 2008-02-08 01:14:34 +0100 (Fri, 08 Feb 2008) | 1 line
Use prefix decrement
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r60663 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-02-08 01:56:02 +0100 (Fri, 08 Feb 2008) | 5 lines
issue 2045: Infinite recursion when printing a subclass of defaultdict,
if default_factory is set to a bound method.
Will backport.
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r60667 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2008-02-08 07:45:40 +0100 (Fri, 08 Feb 2008) | 2 lines
Oops! 2.6's Rational.__ne__ didn't work.
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r60671 | hyeshik.chang | 2008-02-08 18:10:20 +0100 (Fri, 08 Feb 2008) | 2 lines
Update big5hkscs codec to conform to the HKSCS:2004 revision.
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r60673 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-08 23:30:04 +0100 (Fri, 08 Feb 2008) | 4 lines
Remove unnecessary modulo division.
The preceding test guarantees that 0 <= i < len.
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r60674 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-09 00:02:27 +0100 (Sat, 09 Feb 2008) | 1 line
Speed-up __iter__() mixin method.
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r60675 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-09 00:34:21 +0100 (Sat, 09 Feb 2008) | 1 line
Fill-in missing Set comparisons
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r60677 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-09 00:57:06 +0100 (Sat, 09 Feb 2008) | 1 line
Add advice on choosing between DictMixin and MutableMapping
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diff --git a/Doc/library/decimal.rst b/Doc/library/decimal.rst
index 3c3e613..f6b96b2 100644
--- a/Doc/library/decimal.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/decimal.rst
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@
Specification <http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/decimal/decarith.html>`_.
* IEEE standard 854-1987, `Unofficial IEEE 854 Text
- <http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~ejr/projects/754/private/drafts/854-1987/dir.html>`_.
+ <http://754r.ucbtest.org/standards/854.pdf>`_.
.. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
@@ -1238,6 +1238,19 @@
operation. This is a useful return value when an invalid result needs to
interrupt a calculation for special handling.
+The behavior of Python's comparison operators can be a little surprising where a
+:const:`NaN` is involved. A test for equality where one of the operands is a
+quiet or signaling :const:`NaN` always returns :const:`False` (even when doing
+``Decimal('NaN')==Decimal('NaN')``), while a test for inequality always returns
+:const:`True`. An attempt to compare two Decimals using any of the ``<``,
+``<=``, ``>`` or ``>=`` operators will raise the :exc:`InvalidOperation` signal
+if either operand is a :const:`NaN`, and return :const:`False` if this signal is
+trapped. Note that the General Decimal Arithmetic specification does not
+specify the behavior of direct comparisons; these rules for comparisons
+involving a :const:`NaN` were taken from the IEEE 854 standard (see Table 3 in
+section 5.7). To ensure strict standards-compliance, use the :meth:`compare`
+and :meth:`compare-signal` methods instead.
+
The signed zeros can result from calculations that underflow. They keep the sign
that would have resulted if the calculation had been carried out to greater
precision. Since their magnitude is zero, both positive and negative zeros are