facundo batista zopkrbwbxubyoxgmailcom 2008325 mark dickinson 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 1 facundo blog httpwwwtaniquetilcomarplog pyar httpwwwpythonorgar _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom wed 06 aug 2008 200956 0300 pythondev decimalunicode