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Author	facundobatista
Recipients	christian.heimes, facundobatista, mark.dickinson, poelzi
Date	2008-01-07.12:21:21
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Message-id	<[email protected]>
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Mark is right, the current behaviour is correct. See Tim post for a longer explanation. As general help, for the money class take a look of this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pymoney There you'll see that the approach was to store the value, not subclass Decimal, as the other currency info makes math ugly. For example: Money("15.30", currency="USD") + Money("2.33", currency="ARS") There's a lot of discussion for a Money data type, also, in python-list and python-dev (I even proposed a pre-PEP), but then Decimal was implemented; check those lists at the fourth quarter of 2003 for these posts. Regards,

Mark is right, the current behaviour is correct. See Tim post for a
longer explanation.

As general help, for the money class take a look of this:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pymoney

There you'll see that the approach was to store the value, not subclass
Decimal, as the other currency info makes math ugly. For example:
  
  Money("15.30", currency="USD") + Money("2.33", currency="ARS")

There's a lot of discussion for a Money data type, also, in python-list
and python-dev (I even proposed a pre-PEP), but then Decimal was
implemented; check those lists at the fourth quarter of 2003 for these
posts.

Regards,

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-01-07 12:21:24	facundobatista	set	spambayes_score: 0.00101976 -> 0.0010197593 recipients: + facundobatista, mark.dickinson, christian.heimes, poelzi
2008-01-07 12:21:23	facundobatista	set	spambayes_score: 0.00101976 -> 0.00101976 messageid: <[email protected]>
2008-01-07 12:21:21	facundobatista	link	issue1562 messages
2008-01-07 12:21:21	facundobatista	create