python currency type - BigDecimal Python - Python decimal type

money

Money class with optional CLDR-backed locale-aware formatting and an extensible currency exchange solution. This is version 1.3.0.

Decimal fixed-point and floating-point arithmetic

The decimal module provides support for fast correctly rounded decimal floating point arithmetic. It offers several advantages over the float datatype.

How to format numbers as currency strings in Python

Python provides the several ways to the format numbers as currency strings including the locale module and str.format() method.

> The python example is using floats for currency. Dumb

Depends what you're doing. In fact it's not always wrong to use floats for currency. For accounting you should probably use a fixed-precision decimal type.

What class to use for money representation?

Never use a floating point number to represent money. Floating numbers do not represent numbers in decimal notation accurately.

Cleaning Up Currency Data with Pandas

This article summarizes my experience and describes how to clean up messy currency fields and convert them into a numeric value for further analysis.