I've been trying django-money for this reason... On Jun 28, 2011 9:50 AM, "Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]" < cal.leem...@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Tom Evans <tevans...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] >> <cal.leem...@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote: >> > Yeah I have come up against horrible problems before when forcibly >> > re-casting all int's to float's.. (especially when it's in the monetary >> > sense). I had assumed that it would be a on a "per case" basis, but just >> > wanted to make sure. >> > >> >> Eeek - having said hard and fast rules are bad, I'm going to give one >> of my own - never ever ever use floating point calculations for >> financial/monetary calculations. Use Decimal (which is in fact backed >> by two integers), which avoids rounding issues. >> >> When the auditors want to know what happened to the missing 4p* before >> they sign off your books, you don't want to have to go through every >> block of code retro-fitting Decimal :) >> > > Lmao, I know *exactly* what you mean. I'll look at using Decimal next time! > > >> >> Cheers >> >> Tom >> >> >> * This happened to me. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Django users" group. >> To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. >
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