Numeric data question

[terry]

>>  Of course, such a thing could be implemented in Python as you
>> suggest, probably with longs or strings emulating fixed-point
>> numbers.

James,

Do you know if the database internal representations of currency 
are consistent across many/most databases?  It would seem like 
that would have to be true for a Python to have a chance for an 
intrinsic implementation that would be relatively universally 
useful by ODBC connections, wouldn't it?  However, interface 
packages like Pypgsql could translate from Postgres internal to 
Python internal representations without a problem - if it existed 
that is :).

terry