Issue #6595: Allow Decimal constructor to accept non-European decimal digits, as recommended by the specification.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_decimal.py b/Lib/test/test_decimal.py
index 43f2a08..927fd1a 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_decimal.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_decimal.py
@@ -425,9 +425,6 @@ class DecimalExplicitConstructionTest(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(str(Decimal('1.3E4 \n')), '1.3E+4')
         self.assertEqual(str(Decimal('  -7.89')), '-7.89')
 
-        #but alternate unicode digits should not
-        self.assertEqual(str(Decimal('\uff11')), 'NaN')
-
     def test_explicit_from_tuples(self):
 
         #zero
@@ -534,6 +531,15 @@ class DecimalExplicitConstructionTest(unittest.TestCase):
         d = nc.create_decimal(prevdec)
         self.assertEqual(str(d), '5.00E+8')
 
+    def test_unicode_digits(self):
+        test_values = {
+            '\uff11': '1',
+            '\u0660.\u0660\u0663\u0667\u0662e-\u0663' : '0.0000372',
+            '-nan\u0c68\u0c6a\u0c66\u0c66' : '-NaN2400',
+            }
+        for input, expected in test_values.items():
+            self.assertEqual(str(Decimal(input)), expected)
+
 
 class DecimalImplicitConstructionTest(unittest.TestCase):
     '''Unit tests for Implicit Construction cases of Decimal.'''