[Python-Dev] Adventures with Decimal

Facundo Batista facundobatista at gmail.com
Fri May 20 22:47:56 CEST 2005


On 5/20/05, Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote:


> That's not my interest here.  My interest is in a consistent,

Point. Every time I explain Decimal, I have to say "always the context
is applied EXCEPT at construction time".


> > If someone wants to craft another module to wrap around and
> > candy-coat the Decimal API, I would be all for it.
> 
> For example, Facundo is doing that with a money class, yes?  That's

Yes, and so far it's pretty much "Hey! Let's take Decimal and define
how we configure and use it".


.    Facundo

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