[Python-Dev] Store timestamps as decimal.Decimal objects

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:13 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:11:37 +1000
> Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Having a low-level module like os needing to know about higher-level
>> types like decimal.Decimal and datetime.datetime (or even timedelta)
>> should be setting off all kinds of warning bells.
>
> Decimal is ideally low-level (it's a number), it's just that it has a
> complicated high-level implementation :)

FWIW, my vote is also for Decimal and against datetime or timedelta.
(I dream of Decimal replacing float in Python 4000, so take my vote
with an appropriate amount of salt. :-)