Message6210

Implicit Decimal conversion fails 

Jython 2.5.2rc2 (Release_2_5_2rc2:7167, Oct 24 2010, 22:48:30) 
[Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (Sun Microsystems Inc.)] on java1.6.0_21
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>>> import math
>>> from decimal import Decimal as D
>>> math.fabs(D('23.23'))
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: fabs(): 1st arg can't be coerced to double

But this works.

>>> math.fabs(float(D('23.23')))
23.23