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| author | Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> | 2009-08-02 10:14:23 (GMT) |
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| committer | Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> | 2009-08-02 10:14:23 (GMT) |
| commit | 345adc43a37cf4640a58cd37df8eaf12f7e55dac (patch) | |
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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 index f3b1ae4..c1c8482 100644 --- a/Doc/library/decimal.rst +++ b/Doc/library/decimal.rst @@ -324,6 +324,11 @@ Decimal objects 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))`` |