[Python-Dev] proposal: add basic money type to the standard library

[Fredrik Lundh]

and while I'm at it:

I propose adding an "abstract" money base type to the standard
library, to be subclassed by real money/decimal implementations.

    if isinstance(v, basemoney):
        # yay! it's money
        print float(money) # let's hope it's not too much

The goal is not to standardize any behaviour beyond this; anything
else should be provided by subtypes.

More details here:

    http://effbot.org/ideas/money-type.htm

I can produce PEP and patch if necessary.

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