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Is there a way to use Decimal() by default in Python instead of float? I've no use for the float type, and I have some stuff that would require Decimal(), but it is kind of a pain to try and cast things all over the place all the time. Float is just way too inexact for me.<BR>
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I am searching around, and I don't see anything helpful, but I could (as always) be missing something... I tried (rather naïvely) to just do something like:<BR>
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<TT>>>> import decimal</TT><BR>
<TT>>>> float=Decimal</TT><BR>
<TT>>>> x=1.1</TT><BR>
<TT>>>> x</TT><BR>
<TT>1.1000000000000001</TT><BR>
<TT>>>></TT> <BR>
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But, that didn't work (obviously). It was a shot, anyway. Are there any ideas, or does anyone have a way around this? I would prefer to not have to convert incoming floating point numbers to strings and then convert them to Decimal() types every single time that I want to use them (which would be in *every* case). For example, I have a ZIP code database that can do some processing on its numbers, and the numbers are stored as floating point values (exactly) but Python doesn't get them right; so the Decimal() thing would be needed. *shrugs*<BR>
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Thanks a bunch,<BR>
Mike<BR>
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