123.3 + 0.1 is 123.3999999999 ?

[Tim Peters]

[Jeff Kowalczyk]
> Has the python community converged on a favored
> solution for financial/currency apps? An uninformed use
> of floats as currency would have obvious pitfalls.

    http://fixedpoint.sourceforge.net/

seems to be most used at this time.

On the horizon, Python CVS's nondist/sandbox/decimal/ directory contains a
first-cut implementation of IBM's proposal for decimal arithmetic.  The IBM
proposal is here:

    http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/decimal/

I don't think this will make it into Python 2.3 -- although it might, if
people volunteered enough work to move it along quickly.