Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Re: DecimalField Problem

Den 08/01/2014 kl. 17.56 skrev Daniel Roseman <daniel@roseman.org.uk>:
>
> No, no, no. None of this is true.
>
> Decimals are not a differently-formatted version of floats. Decimals are not a built-in datatype in Python, it's true, but they are provided in the standard library in (not surprisingly) the `decimal` module. As the documentation for that module explains, decimals do provide precise floating-point arithmetic, and are therefore suitable for representing things like currencies. Databases usually also provide a similar datatype, which Django's DecimalField maps to.

Greatly embarrassed, and thanks for clarifying. Will be more careful when answering next time :-)

Erik

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