PySqlite - division of real numbers without decimal fractions

Astley Le Jasper

I've been getting errors recently when using pysqlite. I've declared
the table columns as real numbers to 2 decimal places (I'm dealing
with money), but when doing division on two numbers that happen to
have no decimal fractions, the results through pysqlite are coming
through as integers. The funny thing is that when looking at the
database using SQLite Manager or SQLite Pro the results there are
displayed correctly. As a temporary fix I've had to multiply one of
the numbers with 1.0 which has fixed it but I wonder if there is
something else I'm doing wrong.

Nov 6 '08 #1

Dan Bishop

On Nov 6, 3:46*pm, Astley Le Jasper <Astley.lejas...@gmail.comwrote:

I've been getting errors recently when using pysqlite. I've declared
the table columns as real numbers to 2 decimal places (I'm dealing
with money), but when doing division on two numbers that happen to
have no decimal fractions, the results through pysqlite are coming
through as integers. The funny thing is that when looking at the
database using SQLite Manager or SQLite Pro the results there are
displayed correctly. As a temporary fix I've had to multiply one of
the numbers with 1.0 which has fixed it but I wonder if there is
something else I'm doing wrong.

You're using old-style division. Put the line "from __future__ import
division" in your script.

Nov 7 '08 #2

Astley Le Jasper

On Nov 7, 6:36*am, Dan Bishop <danb...@yahoo.comwrote:

On Nov 6, 3:46*pm, Astley Le Jasper <Astley.lejas...@gmail.comwrote:

I've been getting errors recently when using pysqlite. I've declared
the table columns as real numbers to 2 decimal places (I'm dealing
with money), but when doing division on two numbers that happen to
have no decimal fractions, the results through pysqlite are coming
through as integers. The funny thing is that when looking at the
database using SQLite Manager or SQLite Pro the results there are
displayed correctly. As a temporary fix I've had to multiply one of
the numbers with 1.0 which has fixed it but I wonder if there is
something else I'm doing wrong.

You're using old-style division. *Put the line "from __future__ import
division" in your script.

Hi,

But the calculations are being done within a sql statement within
SQLite?

([actual_price]-[recommended_price])/[recommended_price]

Nov 7 '08 #3

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gerhard_H=E4ring?=

Astley Le Jasper wrote:

I've been getting errors recently when using pysqlite. I've declared
the table columns as real numbers to 2 decimal places (I'm dealing
with money),

MySQL doesn't have any MONEY type. All it has is INTEGER, REAL, TEXT,
BLOB and NULL types.

but when doing division on two numbers that happen to
have no decimal fractions, the results through pysqlite are coming
through as integers. The funny thing is that when looking at the
database using SQLite Manager or SQLite Pro the results there are
displayed correctly. As a temporary fix I've had to multiply one of
the numbers with 1.0 which has fixed it but I wonder if there is
something else I'm doing wrong.

Perhaps using SQLite's column affinity would help? Let the type be named
"real" instead of anything fancy:

>>from pysqlite2 import dbapi2 as sqlite3
con = sqlite3.connect(":memory:")
con.execute("create table foo(x number(10,2))")

<pysqlite2.dbapi2.Cursor object at 0xb7d6faa0>

>>con.executemany("insert into foo(x) values (?)", [(3,), (3.0,)])

<pysqlite2.dbapi2.Cursor object at 0xb7d830e0>

>>print con.execute("select x from foo").fetchall()

[(3,), (3,)] # <------------------------ !!!

>>con.execute("create table bar(x real)")

<pysqlite2.dbapi2.Cursor object at 0xb7d83110>

>>con.executemany("insert into bar(x) values (?)", [(3,), (3.0,)])

<pysqlite2.dbapi2.Cursor object at 0xb7d83170>

>>print con.execute("select x from bar").fetchall()

[(3.0,), (3.0,)] # <------------------------ !!!

Do you see the difference?

-- Gerhard

Nov 7 '08 #4

Astley Le Jasper

On 8 Nov, 05:39, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.comwrote:

On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:36:52 +0100, Gerhard Häring <g...@ghaering.de>
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Astley Le Jasper wrote:

I've been getting errors recently when using pysqlite. I've declared
the table columns as real numbers to 2 decimal places (I'm dealing
with money),

MySQL doesn't have any MONEY type. All it has is INTEGER, REAL, TEXT,
BLOB and NULL types.

* * * * Did you mean SQLite? <G>

Perhaps using SQLite's column affinity would help? Let the type be named
"real" instead of anything fancy:

* * * * If dealing with monetary computations, it might be betterto define
converters/adapters for Python's decimal type... Though that may mean
that doing simple SQL arithmetic may not be possible -- might need to
supply a Python function to work the arithmetic with conversion of the
data...
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Hi,

Sorry. I don't get this.

I am using numbers to 2dp (it doesn't really matter that it's money or
not) and importing them into SQLite where all the views are held. One
of the columns is doing the following calculations:
([actual_price]-[recommended_price]) AS [difference]
([actual_price]-[recommended_price])/[recommended_price] AS
[difference_proportion]

When using a SQLite gui like SQLiteManager I can see the imported data
is stored correctly and the column has been calculated correctly. So
I'll have something like:

[actual_price],[recommended_price],[difference],
[difference_proportion]
199.99,299.99,-100.00,-0.343344445
100.00,120.00,-100.00,-0.16666667

However, when calling the view from pysqlite I get the following
results
199.99,299.99,-100.00,-0.34
100.00,120.00,-100.00,0

So the row where both numbers have no decimal fraction are changing to
an integer. I looks like there is something going on in between sqlite
and pysqlite.

Nov 10 '08 #5