[Python-Dev] Decimal conversion to string

[Greg Ewing]

Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com>:

> I'm not dead-set on using a tuple form, but I think it's more useful for
> someone trying to see the internals of a Decimal instance. 

But who cares about the gory details of the internals?
The most important thing about a repr() is to unambiguously
indicate the object's type; the next is to show something
about its value, as far as reasonably possible. What's
actually inside the object doesn't matter much.

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