If you want to clean it up say on the templates or whatever, (say for
showing info back to the customer) -- you can always pass it to the
django template formatting tags I believe its called floatformat.
(e.g. {{ value|floatformat 2} or something very close to that)On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Bruce Kroeze <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, it is normal. That's because not every store sells items in whole unit > increments. What if you had fabric, what would be the unit? With a float, > you can have a unit be a yard, and sell smaller increments. > Similarly with a store that sells by the pound. No reason to force people > to buy a whole pound. > I'm not sure why you'd want to change the datatype. If you were insistently > determined to do so, then it would be a fork. The displayed formatting is > done with our "moneyfmt" and decimal rounding templatetags. > > On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 7:28 AM, craig <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I noticed some fields are stored as floats with six decimal places. >> Both "Total sold" and "Number in stock" show up as a float with 6 >> decimal places. >> >> Is this normal and is it possible to change the formatting of these >> values without altering the db schema? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Satchmo users" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en. >> > > > > -- > Bruce Kroeze > http://www.ecomsmith.com > It's time to hammer your site into shape. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Satchmo users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en. > -- http://www.sudovi.com/ http://www.twitter.com/lifewithryan http://www.thecommontongue.com http://www.lifewithryan.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Satchmo users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en.
