I've not looked at the Satchmo code recently, but are these floats, or are they decimals?
If they are floats, there are some significant accuracy issues that will eventually appear. Decimals get around these issues, but are only available with Python 2.4 and later. Thanks, Chris Dukes On May 10, 11:11 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]<satchmo-users%[email protected]> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en. > > -- > Bruce Kroezehttp://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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en. -- 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.
