Idea: Adding a Money Base Type
February 8, 2002 | Fredrik Lundh
I propose adding an “abstract” base type for money objects, which can be subclassed by actual implementations.
The base type allows the user to use isinstance to identify an object as a money object, and convert the money value to an integer, a floating point value, or a well-formed string.
The goal is not to standardize any behaviour beyond this; anything else should be provided by implementation subtypes.
The Base Type
The basemoney type provides a minimal interface, with five standard methods.
class basemoney(object): def __str__(self): # return the money value, as a string that should # match the regular pattern "[+|-]?\d+(.\d+)?" # use trailing zeros to indicate precision def __int__(self): # convert money value to an integer. may return a # long integer, if necessary def __float__(self): # convert money value to a float. def __hash__(self): # return hash value. could be defined as hash(str(self)) def __cmp__(self, other): # compare two money values
Note that int() and float() might be inexact.
Questions
None, this far.
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