Decimal arithmatic, was Re: Python GUI app to impress the boss?

[Dan Bishop]

"Stuart D. Gathman" <stuart at bmsi.com> wrote in message news:<amo0aq$5nf$1 at nntp2-cm.news.eni.net>...
>...
> There ought to be severe penalties for idiots that use floating point
> dollars for financial applications.  If forced to use floating point
> (e.g. because customer demands BASIC), then keep money amounts in
> whole pennies (or whatever the smallest currency unit for the country
> is), and divide by 100 (or whatever) for printing only (or just add the
> decimal point yourself).

That's exactly how things were done at my old workplace, except that
cents were also used for user input.  Most of the time.