[issue11801] difference in comparison behavior between 32 bit and 64 bit releases

2011-04-07 Thread Ezio Melotti
Ezio Melotti added the comment: I think that's "normal", the 2.7 doc[0] says: """ Changed in version 2.7: A comparison between a float instance x and a Decimal instance y now returns a result based on the values of x and y. In earlier versions x < y returned the same (arbitrary) result for any

[issue11801] difference in comparison behavior between 32 bit and 64 bit releases

2011-04-07 Thread Lane Stevens
New submission from Lane Stevens : I have two systems running python-2.6.4-27.fc13.x86_64 and python-2.6.4-27.fc13.i686 respectively. Given the following statement the 64-bit version returns False and the 32-bit version returns True. Decimal('1.0') > 0.0 Decimal('1.0') > 0 returns True on b