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r74279 | mark.dickinson | 2009-08-02 11:14:23 +0100 (Sun, 02 Aug 2009) | 1 line
Issue #6595: Allow Decimal constructor to accept non-European decimal digits, as recommended by the specification.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/decimal.rst b/Doc/library/decimal.rst
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@@ -324,6 +324,11 @@
numeric-value ::= decimal-part [exponent-part] | infinity
numeric-string ::= [sign] numeric-value | [sign] nan
+ Other Unicode decimal digits are also permitted where ``digit``
+ appears above. These include decimal digits from various other
+ alphabets (for example, Arabic-Indic and Devanāgarī digits) along
+ with the fullwidth digits ``'\uff10'`` through ``'\uff19'``.
+
If *value* is a :class:`tuple`, it should have three components, a sign
(:const:`0` for positive or :const:`1` for negative), a :class:`tuple` of
digits, and an integer exponent. For example, ``Decimal((0, (1, 4, 1, 4), -3))``