pbojinov
8/17/2015 - 6:47 PM

A monkey patch for boto's Decimal context to allow inexact and rounded representation of floats. Used to store any float in DynamoDB when in

A monkey patch for boto's Decimal context to allow inexact and rounded representation of floats. Used to store any float in DynamoDB when inexactitude is allowed.

boto_decimal_monkeypatch.py
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# Monkey patch Decimal's default Context to allow 
# inexact and rounded representation of floats
import decimal
from boto.dynamodb.types import DYNAMODB_CONTEXT
# Inhibit Inexact Exceptions
DYNAMODB_CONTEXT.traps[decimal.Inexact] = 0
# Inhibit Rounded Exceptions
DYNAMODB_CONTEXT.traps[decimal.Rounded] = 0