From 15ae41c2db8b0779a7f584c238a8e9efe6e370b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Dickinson Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 19:22:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Issue #7048: logb should round its result when that result doesn't fit into the available precision. (Tests for this change are included in the most recent set of testcases from the Decimal Specification site; those testcases will be updated shortly.) --- Lib/decimal.py | 3 ++- Misc/NEWS | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Lib/decimal.py b/Lib/decimal.py index 4d1f7f9f152..75e5eea7b97 100644 --- a/Lib/decimal.py +++ b/Lib/decimal.py @@ -3126,7 +3126,8 @@ class Decimal(object): # otherwise, simply return the adjusted exponent of self, as a # Decimal. Note that no attempt is made to fit the result # into the current context. - return Decimal(self.adjusted()) + ans = Decimal(self.adjusted()) + return ans._fix(context) def _islogical(self): """Return True if self is a logical operand. diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index f90c8f4fa7d..cbd3040126e 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -398,6 +398,9 @@ Core and Builtins Library ------- +- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result + is too large to fit in the current precision. + - Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in Distutils.