On Sat, 02 May 2009 15:43:23 +0200 "Günther Dietrich" <guenther.dietr...@spamfence.net> wrote: > Krishnakant <krm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > ['money datatype' for database stored values] > > What ist the real problem? Do you have problems converting results of > float calculations to the 'money datatype' before storing them in the > database, or do you want to avoid the precision issues which come with > the conversion od non-integer values between binary and decimal? > In the latter case use the Decimal data type from module decimal (comes > with the python distribution -- it is mentioned in the tutorial).
And if you use PyGreSQL (http://www.PyGreSQL.org/) to connect to the database then the money type is already converted to Decimal. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <da...@druid.net> | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on +1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
