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  r77937 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-02-02 20:35:45 -0600 (Tue, 02 Feb 2010) | 75 lines

  Merged revisions 77484,77487,77561,77570,77593,77603,77608,77667,77702-77703,77739,77858,77887,77889 via svnmerge from
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    r77484 | skip.montanaro | 2010-01-13 19:12:34 -0600 (Wed, 13 Jan 2010) | 4 lines

    Update PyEval_EvalFrame to PyEval_EvalFrameEx.  This looks to have been done
    partially before.  Also add a comment describing how this might have to work
    with different versions of the interpreter.
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    r77487 | ezio.melotti | 2010-01-14 05:34:10 -0600 (Thu, 14 Jan 2010) | 1 line

    Fixed typo
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    r77561 | georg.brandl | 2010-01-17 02:42:30 -0600 (Sun, 17 Jan 2010) | 1 line

    #7699: improve datetime docs: straightforward linking to strftime/strptime section, mark classmethods as such.
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    r77570 | georg.brandl | 2010-01-17 06:14:42 -0600 (Sun, 17 Jan 2010) | 1 line

    Add note about usage of STRINGLIB_EMPTY.
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    r77593 | georg.brandl | 2010-01-17 17:33:53 -0600 (Sun, 17 Jan 2010) | 1 line

    Fix internal reference.
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    r77603 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-01-18 17:07:56 -0600 (Mon, 18 Jan 2010) | 8 lines

    data descriptors do not override the class dictionary if __get__ is not defined

    Adjust documentation and add a test to verify this behavior.

    See http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-January/095637.html for
    discussion.
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    r77608 | gregory.p.smith | 2010-01-19 02:19:03 -0600 (Tue, 19 Jan 2010) | 6 lines

    Do not compile stubs for the sha2 series hashes in the openssl hashlib
    module when the openssl version is too old to support them.  That
    leads both compiled code bloat and to unittests attempting to test
    implementations that don't exist for comparison purposes on such
    platforms.
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    r77667 | mark.dickinson | 2010-01-21 12:32:27 -0600 (Thu, 21 Jan 2010) | 1 line

    Add two more test_strtod test values.
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    r77702 | georg.brandl | 2010-01-23 02:43:31 -0600 (Sat, 23 Jan 2010) | 1 line

    #7762: fix refcount annotation of PyUnicode_Tailmatch().
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    r77703 | georg.brandl | 2010-01-23 02:47:54 -0600 (Sat, 23 Jan 2010) | 1 line

    #7725: fix referencing issue.
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    r77739 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-01-24 21:52:52 -0600 (Sun, 24 Jan 2010) | 1 line

    mention from_float() in error message
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    r77858 | georg.brandl | 2010-01-30 11:57:48 -0600 (Sat, 30 Jan 2010) | 1 line

    #7802: fix invalid example (heh).
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    r77887 | georg.brandl | 2010-01-31 12:51:49 -0600 (Sun, 31 Jan 2010) | 5 lines

    Fix-up ftplib documentation:
    move exception descriptions to toplevel, not inside a class
    remove attribution in "versionadded"
    spell and grammar check docstring of FTP_TLS
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    r77889 | michael.foord | 2010-01-31 13:59:26 -0600 (Sun, 31 Jan 2010) | 1 line

    Minor modification to unittest documentation.
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/decimal.py b/Lib/decimal.py
index 5638bd7086..98e1d060e1 100644
--- a/Lib/decimal.py
+++ b/Lib/decimal.py
@@ -648,8 +648,8 @@ class Decimal(object):
             return self
 
         if isinstance(value, float):
-            raise TypeError("Cannot convert float to Decimal.  " +
-                            "First convert the float to a string")
+            raise TypeError("Cannot convert float in Decimal constructor. "
+                            "Use from_float class method.")
 
         raise TypeError("Cannot convert %r to Decimal" % value)