Why Boto3 does not support Floats?

[fabiom91]

Hi there, I'm trying to use boto3 with dynamodb on my local computer however I'm having issues storing floats numbers. I get an error that asks me to use Decimal instead and to avoid the rounding issue I should first convert my data into Strings...

Do you see this is just mad?
Beside I'm working with huge amount of data, a double datatype conversion is definitely not an option for me and if I have to add the overhead of splitting the data into smaller segments then probably I should look at another kind of DB 🙄

[aBurmeseDev]

Hi @fabiom91 - thank you for reaching out and sorry to hear that you're having this issue.
I have been in the similar situation and can understand how this can be frustrating sometimes. However, I did some digging for you and found some workarounds. This Github issue have some workarounds for DynamoDB suggested by multiple users and would be a good resource for you.

If you have any specific use case or workflow that can't be resolved by those workarounds mentioned, please feel free to share it with us and we'll be happy to look into it.

Best,
John

[fabiom91]

nope, all those workarounds wouldn't work as demonstrated by that GitHub issue still being open since 2015. Thanks anyway.