the art. It now complies latest specification and tests.
The only difference of this version with the one in the trunk
is that a small subset that hash tests were removed, because
they rely on modifications to core hash() function (see
issue 1182 for further details).
normalize() in Draft 1.06 (9 October 2002):
The normalize operation has been added; it reduces a number to a
canonical form. (This replaces the trim operator, which only
removed trailing fractional zeros.)
Facundo Batista
Raymond Hettinger