mark dickinson vqpxmqtcgmailcom tue mar 25 2008 946 oleg broytmann wrote 252 prints change bug feature shouldnt to_eng_string always return str id call bug change accident sideeffect fact 251 coefficient mantissa decimal stored tuple 252 stored string greatly improves efficiency clearly 252 mantissa stored unicode instance second case explicitly coerced str decimal__new__ others agree bug ill fix mark wed 06 aug 2008 191357 0400 pythondev decimalunicode