Re: [SQLObject] Decimal type support

[Carlos R. <car...@gm...>]

On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 12:04:21 -0600, Ian Bicking <ia...@co...> wrote:
> Carlos Ribeiro wrote:
> > I remember posting a comment about the state of the DB API on c.l.py a
> > couple of months ago (soon after the famous AMK blog post on the std
> > library), and being quickly flamed by some well know DB-SIG members.
> > So that's *really* hard.
> 
> It won't be hard for the decimal type -- the decimal type is an issue of
> correctness.  It might be hard to make it actually *happen* given the
> development process for any particular driver, but everyone knows
> returning a Python decimal for a DB decimal column is the Right Thing.
> All you have to ask is, "how do I do it?" and if there's not a way, "how
> can we change the driver to allow me to do it?"

Well, you're probably right. But that's realy not for a short
timeframe though. I think I'll be using floats for now -- they did
just fine up to this point, if used with proper care at the right
locations, and I should not be in a hurry to replace it. I may be able
to come up with a Decimals patch in the next few weeks (surely it's
not going to be my top priority).

I'll follow yours (Ian and Oleg) feedback, and subscribe to the
DB-SIG, to check how do they feel about it. I'm lucky enough (I guess)
to have three platforms installed & working here: PostgreSQL, MySQL
and sqlite, so I think I can test with these. Let's see what I can
bake here...

Thanks for the info and for the encouragement :-)

-- 
Carlos Ribeiro
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