[Python-Dev] Adventures with Decimal

[Guido van Rossum]

It looks like if you pass in a context, the Decimal constructor still
ignores that context:

>>> import decimal as d
>>> d.getcontext().prec = 4
>>> d.Decimal("1.2345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890000",
d.getcontext())
Decimal("1.2345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890000")
>>> 

I think this is contrary to what some here have claimed (that you
could pass an explicit context to cause it to round according to the
context's precision).

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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)