subclassing int and accessing the value

[Mark McEahern]

> Yes, I need to give this some more thought. If I actually end up using
> this, it will need to interface with a database (MySQL or PostgreSQL)
> so I need something that will be easy to back and forth between the
> SQL representation and the Python representation.

I use FixedPoint instances with PostgreSQL via pyPgSQL and that works quite
well.

Aahz has put up a copy of Tim Peters' FixedPoint here:

  http://starship.python.net/crew/aahz/FixedPoint.py

Cheers,

// mark

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