Passing a Decimal(str(value)) to a dictionary for

Question

I'm needing to pass values to a dictionary as class 'decimal.Decimal', and the following keeps happening:

from decimal import *

transaction_amount = 100.03
transaction_amount = Decimal(str(transaction_amount))
item = {
'transaction_amount': transaction_amount
}

print(item)

Results:

{'transaction_amount': Decimal('100.03')}

How do I attain the raw 100.03 result, rather than Decimal('100.03')?

This is what I want the dictionary to have saved:

{'transaction_amount': 100.03)}

When I do:

print(transaction_amount)

The result is as expected:

100.03

So where am I going wrong?

I don't see any reason why this question should be downvoted.

Answer 1

When you ask python to print an object, it'll print the textual representation of that object.

Here your variable item is a dictionnary, so its representation is as follow:

{ key: value [, repeat]}

If you want the value inside your dictionnary, you would have to go at the specified key like so :

print(item[transaction_amount])

So basically, your code was fine and your use of decimal too, but you weren't testing it the good way. ;) Happens a lot.

Edit: It's worth noting that, since what you are getting within the dictionnary object is Decimal(100.03), even when printing the value of the key-value pair as I showed previously, you won't get a pure 100.03, but probably Decimal(100.03).

I'll search some documentation as to how to get the string. Welp apparently no, it should work like a charm.

Edit: I didn't get the question (which has been edited since then) right.
However because of the extended conversation in the comment section, it'll remain here.