[orm-devel] The NUMERIC problem float-ing around (no more!)

[Diedrich Vorberg]

Hi Eric,

>Hey, that sounds like a nice solution.  If I understand you correctly, I 
>can choose to use the new numeric/Column type (and install and use 
>FixedPoint) or I can choose to use customType and handle any needed 
>conversions myself?  I don't care to use FixedPoint ( I don't know 
>anything about it, and I may change my mind later, but for now I crave 
>simplicity ).
Not quite. You'd have to write your own datatype/column pair, which 
probably isn't worth the effort. 

>Is FixedPoint now a requirement of orm?
No it isn't. The import statement in orm.adapters.pgsql.datasource is 
in a try: block and the except: will define a minimal class 
FixedPoint which is a wraper around a Python string, really.

If you only want the NUMERIC data as a string and simply use float() 
on it you can skip installing FixedPoint and use it this way. You 
might want to take a look, though, doesn't seem too bad.

Perhaps I should have integrated the simple string functionality in 
CustomType as a default behaviour.

Diedrich
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