Replacement for the shelve module?

[Steven D'Aprano]

Robert Kern wrote:

> On 8/19/11 3:36 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> 
>> By the way, you know that you should never, ever use floats for currency,
>> right?
> 
> That's just incorrect. You shouldn't use (binary) floats for many
> *accounting* purposes, but for many financial/econometric analyses, floats
> are de rigeur and work much better than decimals (either floating or fixed
> point). If you are collecting gigs of stock prices, you are much more
> likely to be doing the latter than the former.


That makes sense, and I stand corrected.



-- 
Steven