On 25/08/2012 11:23, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
I'm just wondering out aloud if the number of times this type of thread has
been debated here will fit into a Python long or float?
Well, when I have to store currency information, I like to store it as
an integer, using the native currency's "small unit" (eg the cent in
dollar+cent currencies). In this instance, instead of trying to count
the threads (which would be fractional), just count the number of
posts. It then is an integer, and I've yet to find any integer that
can't be represented as a Python long (or, in 3.x, int).
ChrisA
That could have been fun in the good old days of pounds, shillings and
pence. Why they had to complicate things by going decimal I shall never
know. Bring back simplistic imperial measures for everything, that's
what I say.
Using long just shows I've still got a Python 2 hat on. Still when
those fine people who develop Matplotlib deliver 1.2 with its Py3k
compliance, aided or hindered by me testing on Windows, Python 3.3 here
I come.
I suppose an alternative to long (or int) or float would have been the
Decimal class from the decimal module? Opinions on this anybody?
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Cheers.
Mark Lawrence.
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