[Python-Dev] Py2.5 issue: decimal context manager misimplemented, misdesigned, and misdocumented (original) (raw)

Raymond Hettinger rhettinger at ewtllc.com
Wed Aug 30 02:51:13 CEST 2006

Raymond Hettinger wrote:

I would like to see the changes to the decimal module reverted for the Py2.5 release.

Currently, the code in the decimal module implements the context manager as a separate class instead of incorporating it directly in decimal.Context.

That should read "... as a separate class instantiated by a brand-new Context method instead of implementing it as a module level function as shown in section 9 of PEP343".

The API in PEP343 is much cleaner. Also, it doesn't have the copy vs reference bug.

Raymond

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