On Oct 5, 2010, at 11:34 PM, csingley wrote:
Hi, I'm just learning to use sqlalchemy now (although I've had some
exposure to SQLObject and Django ORM, so not completely new to the
game).
I'd like to address a standard ORM issue - i.e. interfacing Python
Decimal objects with SQLite
Thanks for the reply!
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Michael Bayer mike...@zzzcomputing.com wrote:
SQlite has no lossless DECIMAL type and SQLAlchemy can't work around that.
Well SQLAlchemy itself suggests workarounds that it doesn't implement,
so here we are...
The approaches to working
On Oct 6, 2010, at 11:00 AM, Christopher Singley wrote:
Thanks for the reply!
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Michael Bayer mike...@zzzcomputing.com
wrote:
SQlite has no lossless DECIMAL type and SQLAlchemy can't work around that.
Well SQLAlchemy itself suggests workarounds that it
On 10/06/2010 10:00 AM, Christopher Singley wrote:
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2. store the decimals as integers, using a type with a fixed exponent. Use
Integer, and place a TypeDecorator around it which multiplies Decimal
objects upwards by the fixed exponent going in and back down going out.
Is it as
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Michael Bayer mike...@zzzcomputing.com wrote:
Well such a type wouldn't be backend agnostic. The String/Integer wrapped
one would act very differently than a Numeric. So not much point in a
transparent switch like that. We try to keep switches like that
Hi, I'm just learning to use sqlalchemy now (although I've had some
exposure to SQLObject and Django ORM, so not completely new to the
game).
I'd like to address a standard ORM issue - i.e. interfacing Python
Decimal objects with SQLite backend. It seems that sqlalchemy follows
the standard
