From: Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 01:02:07 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add Decimal backport to Misc/NEWS
X-Git-Tag: v2.5.2c1~81
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4a3c7c78fb2a4d8bd40590b285720c6dafab9000;p=python

Add Decimal backport to Misc/NEWS
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 95a8b4526b..47b3c5a9a0 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -53,6 +53,11 @@ Core and builtins
 Library
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+- Issue #1182: many arithmetic bugs in the decimal module have been
+  fixed, and the decimal module has been updated to comply with the
+  latest IBM Decimal Arithmetic specification (version 1.66) and
+  testsuite (version 2.57).  (Backported from Python 2.6a0.)
+
 - Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
 
 - Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory permissions