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r78217 | mark.dickinson | 2010-02-18 14:27:02 +0000 (Thu, 18 Feb 2010) | 5 lines
Issue #7633: Context method in the decimal module (with the exception
of the 'canonical' and 'is_canonical' methods) now consistently accept
integer arguments wherever a Decimal instance is accepted. Thanks
Juan José Conti for the patch.
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r78218 | mark.dickinson | 2010-02-18 14:45:33 +0000 (Thu, 18 Feb 2010) | 1 line
Doctest fixes for decimal.py: add an integer-argument doctest for logical_invert; don't use integer literals with a leading zero.
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Library
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+- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, Context class methods (with the
+ exception of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int
+ and long wherever a Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly
+ convert that argument to Decimal. Previously only some arguments
+ were converted.
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- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
interpreter shutdown.