wcmadness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm writing a financial application and MUST have exact math decimals
(no floats). So, I'm using Python's decimal module.
My database is Sqlite (and my language is Python with Pysqlite);
Sqlite doesn't offer a non-floating point decimal type. But, it does
have adapters and converters to store data as a native Sqlite type
(string / text) in the database
Personally, I prefer storing monetary values in the database as scaled
integers. Say, store all values in 1 millionth of a dollar units, so one
dollar is 1000000, and one cent is 10000. Most math works on this
representation out of the box.
Igor Tandetnik
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