Created issue in Google's tracker for this. Please star and promote. http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1063
On Jan 11, 11:35 am, "eric.humphrey" <eric.humph...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you're adding a bunch of these up, it would be unneeded overhead. > Those building apps that handle financial data or other numerics that > require precision need thedecimaldata type. > > On Dec 5 2008, 7:25 am, Justin <justin.drisc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Why not store the value as a string in the datastore and convert it to > > adecimalin Python on retrieval? You could use a property on your > > model to do it for you. > > > importdecimal > > > class MyModel(db.Model): > > string_amount = db.StringProperty(multiline=False) > > > def get_amount(self): > > returndecimal.Decimal(self.string_amount) > > > def set_amount(self, value): > > self.string_amount = str(value) > > > amount = property(get_amount, set_amount) > > > - Justin > > > On Dec 5, 3:11 am, "Fred Janon" <fja...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Float andDecimalare two different types. Float is used in scientific > > > calculations,Decimalfor accounting/financial applications.Decimalexists > > > in Python but doesn't seem to be implemented in the Datastore. > > > > Fred > > > > On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 14:58, lock <lachlan.hu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > There is the FloatProperty, pretty sure that's what your after. > > > > >http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/datastore/typesandpropertyclass... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
