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 Library
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+- Issue #15882: Change _decimal to accept any coefficient tuple when
+  constructing infinities. This is done for backwards compatibility
+  with decimal.py: Infinity coefficients are undefined in _decimal
+  (in accordance with the specification).
 
 - Issue #15876: Fix a refleak in the curses module: window.encoding.