Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
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> Sure, arithmetic (including rounding) is what we most need.  If we call
> it Decimal or whatever, that may be preferable to Money, I don't know.

Remember, a Decimal implementation following the IEEE 854 specs and
Mike Cowlishaw's design and tests exists in the nondist part of the
Python source tree, thanks to Eric Pierce (and some early work by
Aahz, and encouraging words by Tim Peters).

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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