Why not FP for Money?

[Alex Martelli]

Carlos Ribeiro <carribeiro at gmail.com> wrote:
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> A native Money type, either with the $ signal ($35.72) or the suffix
> (35.72D) would not present the same issues, because the literal would

Right, but in practice I find that:

def d(x): return decimal.Decimal(str(x))

appears to work pretty well, judging from early experimentation.


Alex