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Establish policies with respect to 2.3 compatibilty and treated spec

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updates as bugfixes.
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# and Aahz <aahz at pobox.com>
# and Tim Peters
# This module is currently Py2.3 compatible and should be kept that way
# unless a major compelling advantage arises. IOW, 2.3 compatibility is
# strongly preferred, but not guaranteed.
# Also, this module should be kept in sync with the latest updates of
# the IBM specification as it evolves. Those updates will be treated
# as bug fixes (deviation from the spec is a compatibility, usability
# bug) and will be backported. At this point the spec is stabilizing
# and the updates are becoming fewer, smaller, and less significant.
"""
This is a Py2.3 implementation of decimal floating point arithmetic based on