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Author mark.dickinson
Recipients facundobatista, jjconti, mark.dickinson, rhettinger, skrah
Date 2010-01-24.10:52:45
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Thanks for the latest patch!  It's looking good, but I have a few comments:

(1) It's not necessary to do an isinstance(a, Decimal) check before calling _convert_other, since _convert_other does that check anyway.  It doesn't really harm either, but for consistency with the way the Decimal methods themselves are written, I think the isinstance check should be left out.

(2) The error message that's produced when the Decimal operation returns NotImplemented is a bit strange:

>>> decimal.getcontext().add(2, 'bob')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Users/dickinsm/python/svn/trunk/Lib/decimal.py", line 3869, in add
    raise TypeError("Unable to convert %s to Decimal" % r)
TypeError: Unable to convert NotImplemented to Decimal

Presumably that '% r' should be '% b' instead.

(3) It looks like Context.power is missing a NotImplemented check:

>>> decimal.getcontext().power(2, 'bob')
NotImplemented

(4) We should consider updating the documentation for the Context methods, though there's actually nothing there that would suggest that these operations wouldn't work for integers.
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