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  r74564 | mark.dickinson | 2009-08-28 14:25:02 +0100 (Fri, 28 Aug 2009) | 3 lines

  Issue #6794:  Fix handling of NaNs in Decimal.compare_total and
  Decimal.compare_total_mag.
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diff --git a/Lib/decimal.py b/Lib/decimal.py
index ffc0fe8..7c90f0a 100644
--- a/Lib/decimal.py
+++ b/Lib/decimal.py
@@ -2693,12 +2693,15 @@
         other_nan = other._isnan()
         if self_nan or other_nan:
             if self_nan == other_nan:
-                if self._int < other._int:
+                # compare payloads as though they're integers
+                self_key = len(self._int), self._int
+                other_key = len(other._int), other._int
+                if self_key < other_key:
                     if sign:
                         return _One
                     else:
                         return _NegativeOne
-                if self._int > other._int:
+                if self_key > other_key:
                     if sign:
                         return _NegativeOne
                     else: