Re: [cx-oracle-users] float vs. int

[Geoff G. <ge...@ge...>]

Quoting Geoff Gerrietts (ge...@ge...):
> What are the criteria for deciding when a NUMBER will be returned as
> a float, or when it will be returned as an int or long?

Terribly sorry; found the answer in the mailing list archives.

I think for my uses, anything with a scale 0 < sys.maxint should be an
integer, and anything with a scale 0 > sys.maxint should be a long.
This does not violate the principle of least surprise, and it also
relieves me of the burden of post-processing every query result so
CORBA doesn't barf.

With decimals, it would be nice to work with fixed point rather than
floats, but that would likely be a substantial change in my
application: floats are everywhere, and in several places, I expect
them to be floats.

Thanks,
--G.

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Geoff Gerrietts                        "Evolution takes no prisoners."
<ge...@ge...>                                       -- Mandy