[Pymoney-general] Re: currency-country mappings for experimentation

[Jeff K. <jt...@ya...>]

FWIW, I think that pymoney should consider a system of abstract multiple
currencies if the goal is an eventual PEP and inclusion into the python
stdlib.

Hardcoding even relatively static ISO standards data into python stdlib
seems like a backward compatibility headache in the making.

It would seem like an add-on library will be necessary for any non-trivial
application *using* pymoney currency features, so maybe the data should
reside there, keeping the currency-neutral portion of pymoney-proper as
small as possible.

Perhaps an XML or YAML file format containing ISO and other concrete
currency data could be shared among Python, Perl, PHP and Ruby. This
shared data would be encoded into python source when pymoney(-addon)
releases are made.