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authorMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2010-02-18 14:49:50 (GMT)
committerMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2010-02-18 14:49:50 (GMT)
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svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ 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. ........ 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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@@ -896,8 +896,11 @@ In addition to the three supplied contexts, new contexts can be created with the
a large number of methods for doing arithmetic directly in a given context.
In addition, for each of the :class:`Decimal` methods described above (with
the exception of the :meth:`adjusted` and :meth:`as_tuple` methods) there is
- a corresponding :class:`Context` method. For example, ``C.exp(x)`` is
- equivalent to ``x.exp(context=C)``.
+ a corresponding :class:`Context` method. For example, for a :class:`Context`
+ instance ``C`` and :class:`Decimal` instance ``x``, ``C.exp(x)`` is
+ equivalent to ``x.exp(context=C)``. Each :class:`Context` method accepts a
+ Python integer (an instance of :class:`int` or :class:`long`) anywhere that a
+ Decimal instance is accepted.
.. method:: clear_flags()