prePEP: Money data type

[Jegenye 2001 Bt]

Ok, I'm not the accountant type. :D
I'm an ex-physicist. ;) That's why I find controlled error bounds important.

Best,
  Miklós

Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> wrote in message
news:5J8kb.10584$e5.379370 at news1.tin.it...

> That's not the way accountants do it in most situations.  I think a
numeric
> class with explicit error bounds and propagations may have its place, but
> that place is not as "the" type recommended for money computations in
> most Python application programs, IMHO.
>
>
> Alex
>