[Python-Dev] Money module (original) (raw)

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Sat Jul 2 14:53:32 CEST 2005

On Sat, Jul 02, 2005, Facundo Batista wrote:

On 7/1/05, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:

* Time value of money computations are typically dimensionless (not sensitive to currency type or formatting) and they often have algorithm specific rounding needs (round at the end of compounding period or each year or only at the end). We think that it'd nice to have TVM functions inside a money module, so if you want to do some math abouth this you just import the module and use it. It's not so much related to Currency data type, it's just that we think that this module is the right place to put those functions. Don't think that these generic functions use in some way the Currency data type of its Context.

Sounds like a better way to go is a Money package (or perhaps a Financial package) and just create the Currency module within it for now. Anyway, given that this isn't going to be a real PEP any time soon, please restrict the discussion to comp.lang.python. Thanks for your help keeping python-dev clutter-free. ;-)

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