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
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