Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Ram Rachum <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: > But that number, 1.15, is stored in a Django decimal field.
My criticism was towards the idea that one may need to multiply timedelta by a dollar amount or convert a dollar amount to a timedelta. Storing dollar amounts is an important use case for Decimal and there are several reasons why Decimal is a better choice than float for this. On the other hand, I don't see why use of Decimal would be required in your example. Do you have any real world use cases where Decimal is clearly preferred over float and there is a need to multiply Decimals by time deltas? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14262> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
