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Re: Replacement for the shelve module?

From Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Replacement for the shelve module?
Date 2011-08-21 12:37 +1200
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> Robert Kern wrote:
> 
>>That's just incorrect. You shouldn't use (binary) floats for many
>>*accounting* purposes, but for many financial/econometric analyses, floats
>>are de rigeur and work much better than decimals

There's a certain accounting package I work with that *does*
use floats -- binary ones -- for accounting purposes, and
somehow manages to get away with it. Not something I would
recommend trying at home, though.

-- 
Greg

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Replacement for the shelve module? Forafo San <ppv.grps@gmail.com> - 2011-08-19 08:31 -0700
  Re: Replacement for the shelve module? Ken Watford <kwatford@gmail.com> - 2011-08-19 11:49 -0400
  Re: Replacement for the shelve module? Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de> - 2011-08-19 17:54 +0200
    Re: Replacement for the shelve module? Forafo San <ppv.grps@gmail.com> - 2011-08-19 09:21 -0700
  Re: Replacement for the shelve module? Miki Tebeka <miki.tebeka@gmail.com> - 2011-08-19 10:15 -0700
  Re: Replacement for the shelve module? Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2011-08-19 12:45 -0500
  Re: Replacement for the shelve module? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-08-20 06:36 +1000
    Re: Replacement for the shelve module? Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2011-08-19 17:24 -0500
      Re: Replacement for the shelve module? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-08-20 11:38 +1000
        Re: Replacement for the shelve module? Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2011-08-21 12:37 +1200
          Re: Replacement for the shelve module? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-08-21 01:54 +0100

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