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Author	mark.dickinson
Recipients	eric.araujo, ezio.melotti, mark.dickinson, pitrou, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, skrah
Date	2012-11-23.10:13:05
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Message-id	<1353665585.73.0.390211259634.issue16535@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Judging by the discussion that Éric points to, and by the various stackoverflow questions on the topic ([1], [2]), this is a common enough need that I think it would make sense to have some support for it in the std. lib. There's a sense in which Decimal is the 'right' type for json, and we shouldn't make it harder for people to do the right thing with respect to (e.g.) financial data in databases. [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4019856/decimal-to-json [2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1960516/python-json-serialize-a-decimal-object

Judging by the discussion that Éric points to, and by the various stackoverflow questions on the topic ([1], [2]), this is a common enough need that I think it would make sense to have some support for it in the std. lib.

There's a sense in which Decimal is the 'right' type for json, and we shouldn't make it harder for people to do the right thing with respect to (e.g.) financial data in databases.





[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4019856/decimal-to-json
[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1960516/python-json-serialize-a-decimal-object

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