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authorMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2009-08-02 10:59:36 (GMT)
committerMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2009-08-02 10:59:36 (GMT)
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Issue #6595: Allow Decimal constructor to accept non-European decimal
digits, as recommended by the specification. (Backport of r74279 from py3k.)
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@@ -330,6 +330,12 @@ Decimal objects
numeric-value ::= decimal-part [exponent-part] | infinity
numeric-string ::= [sign] numeric-value | [sign] nan
+ If *value* is a unicode string then 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
+ ``u'\uff10'`` through ``u'\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))``