If anyone down the road ends up looking for a solution to this, I worked it out via StackOverflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13163167/how-to-get-a-django-admin-form-field-for-a-models-decimalfield-with-value-0-to-n/13210775#13210775 On Wednesday, October 31, 2012 12:37:26 PM UTC-6, Ben Roberts wrote: > > I created a ticket <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/19220#ticket>for > this, since it really doesn't seem right for a Decimal field to be > using E notation in forms, but just for zeros. > > We use django admin as a client-facing backend, so we need to make it user > friendly. I have a model with a bunch of DecimalFields representing > nutritional data. > > The fields all look like this: > > g_carbs = DecimalField(max_digits=13, decimal_places = 8, null=True, > blank=True) > > If the field is left blank, or if a non-zero value is provided, the admin > form looks and works great. For example, for a non-blank, non-zero value > like 10.5, it displays something like 10.50000000, which is fine. > > The problem is that for any 0 values, the form field displays 0E-8 which, > although technically correct, is not going to cut it for clients, who are > not scientists or engineers for the most part and are unfamiliar with E > notation. We're using DecimalFields rather than FloatFields to avoid this > type of notation. > > I am not using a custom ModelForm or any custom admin tricks. Its just > what gets auto-rendered by django admin for that model. > > I'm wondering if there is a work-around to this problem in the mean time. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/V_mnJiQhgnoJ. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
