Against PEP 240

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <mailman.991505224.22925.python-list at python.org>,
Roman Suzi  <rnd at onego.ru> wrote:
>
>This said, what is the right way to deal with
>currencies in Python right now?

Tim Peters's FixedPoint.py:

ftp://ftp.python.org/pub/python/contrib-09-Dec-1999/DataStructures/FixedPoint.py

You *probably* want to set the precision to three or four places so that
rounding errors don't propagate.
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