financial calculations

[Bengt Richter]

On 10 Mar 2002 08:39:09 -0800, aahz at panix.com (Aahz Maruch) wrote:

>In article <MPG.16f5a2c7862e2392989681 at news.pandora.be>,
>tc  <tony.claeys at pandora.be> wrote:
>>
>>Is there a python module for financial calculations ? Using floats would 
>>give me too much problems with rounding errors.
>
>Not financial calculations per se, but your best bet until I finish my
>BCD module is Tim Peters's FixedPoint.py.  Unfortunately, the old FTP
>link appears to be broken, so I've put up a copy on my Starship pages:
>http://starship.python.net/crew/aahz/FixedPoint.py

Now that you can subclass builtin types, are you going to take a different
approach for >= 2.2 ?

Regards,
Bengt Richter