Re: [Python-Dev] proposal: add basic money type to the standard library

A decimal would do as well, I suppose, at least in terms of storing the raw value. The reason for trying to come up with a monetary type is to make operations between monetary values having two different currencies illegal. Coercion between two of those would always have to be made explicit (for obvious reasons).

Are you sure you're trying to solve a real problem here? There are lots of operations on monetary values that make no sense (try multiplying two amounts of money). --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)