How will the new DAL replaces the functionality of the current and
experimental SQLCustomType?

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 3:58 PM, mdipierro<mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
>
> The new DAL will have a Numeric type. It should be possible to develop
> the eStore app independently on this issue (assume double) and then
> just change the field type when the new one becomes available.
>
> On Jul 12, 1:26 am, "Francois (Jersey)"
> <francois.ches...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Back with an old query, in order to deal with an e-store, we would
>> need to deal with numeric, as we need to deal with prices which are
>> monetary amounts in multiple currencies.
>>
>> I can not remember where we are with numeric implementation?
>>
>> For example in SQLalchemy, numeric is defined as
>>
>> class sqlalchemy.types.Numeric(precision=10, scale=2, asdecimal=True,
>> length=None)¶
>>     Bases: sqlalchemy.types.TypeEngine
>>     A type for fixed precision numbers.
>>     Typically generates DECIMAL or NUMERIC. Returns decimal.Decimal
>> objects by default.
>>
>> http://www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/05/reference/sqlalchemy/types.html?hig...
> >
>

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