[Python-Dev] prePEP: Money data type

Batista, Facundo FBatista at uniFON.com.ar
Tue Oct 21 15:50:32 EDT 2003


Tim Peters wrote:

#- Meaning that there's an existing body of work that's already 
#- been informed
#- by years of design debate (IBM's proposed decimal standard), 
#- and an involved
#- Python implementation of that.  What happens next depends on 
#- who can make
#- time to do something next.

I'm urged to have a Money data type, but I'll see if I can get it through
Decimal, improving/fixing/extedign Decimal and saving effort at the same
time.

.	Facundo



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