26 Feb
2002
26 Feb
'02
12:58 p.m.
Currency for money is a bit like timezones for datetime, so it's a good idea, not to add it to the base type interface. However, the interface should be extendable to include currency information.
Currency is much worse than timezones -- once you are interested in exchange rates, you need to know *when* to calculate the exchange rate (as well as other parameters such as which exchange rate). So please let's keep the currency out of the money type; it's utterly application dependent what to do with that information. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)