Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder2.enfer-du-nord.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Gregory Ewing Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Replacement for the shelve module? Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 12:37:34 +1200 Lines: 13 Message-ID: <9bb2ahFgjbU1@mid.individual.net> References: <1e35ff5e-785e-41db-a50f-976e6ef60692@h9g2000vbr.googlegroups.com> <4e4ec962$0$29986$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <4e4f1004$0$29966$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 31W96oylFQ94vCC3v6ZsdAuuqh3akxWnppq2JP/Id2BEQfKN6k Cancel-Lock: sha1:FsSCMzr3/F5rmioEYxPsYfPYias= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Macintosh/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <4e4f1004$0$29966$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:11934 > 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