Add Decimal backport to Misc/NEWS

4a3c7c78 · Mark Dickinson · d77fedc7 · 4a3c7c78
Commit 4a3c7c78 authored Jan 09, 2008 by Mark Dickinson
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+- Issue #1182: many arithmetic bugs in the decimal module have been
+  fixed, and the decimal module has been updated to comply with the
+  latest IBM Decimal Arithmetic specification (version 1.66) and
+  testsuite (version 2.57).  (Backported from Python 2.6a0.)
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 - Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.

 - Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory permissions