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Author	gdr
Recipients	gdr, rhettinger
Date	2011-01-31.20:53:52
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Message-id	<1296507233.29.0.429772541007.issue11084@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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I didn't mean to implicitly convert Decimal to float. My point was that xmlrpclib should serialize Decimals natively to avoid loss of precision when converting to float and then to string. Whether other party will be able to represent this number exactly or not should not be our issue. To make it more clear, this is what Python currently does: http://gdr.pastebin.pl/35766 this is what I propose it shoud do: http://gdr.pastebin.pl/35765

I didn't mean to implicitly convert Decimal to float. My point was that xmlrpclib should serialize Decimals natively to avoid loss of precision when converting to float and then to string.

Whether other party will be able to represent this number exactly or not should not be our issue. 

To make it more clear, this is what Python currently does:
http://gdr.pastebin.pl/35766
this is what I propose it shoud do:
http://gdr.pastebin.pl/35765

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Date	User	Action	Args
2011-01-31 20:53:53	gdr	set	recipients: + gdr, rhettinger
2011-01-31 20:53:53	gdr	set	messageid: <1296507233.29.0.429772541007.issue11084@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2011-01-31 20:53:52	gdr	link	issue11084 messages
2011-01-31 20:53:52	gdr	create