On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 17:49 -0800, dash86no wrote: > I'm have a number of "price" fields in my application. I searched > around the net and it seems to be the case that there are no explicit > currency types in Django. What is the best data type to use for > currency? Would it be decimal?
It depends. A decimal field is certainly the right choice for the numerical value. You also want to consider whether you need to store the currency type, if it varies or might change for different rows in the table. An extra character field or integer field to store the type could then be used. Or you could use a character field and store a normalised representation of the type + value, if you only wanted one column and didn't need to directly do numerical work with the values (that is, you could store "JPY 14000", "AUD 27.34", etc). So consider if you want to work with the values numerically and if the current type is a variable as well. Regards, Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
