Hi all,
I'm looking for a way to store and use floating point values with the Django models. models.FloatField won't do, since that's (generally) implemented as numeric in the db, I believe, and I'm having to deal with values ranging from eg 5.5e5 to 5.5e55; that is, they would have max_digits=55 or so, but the precision is only 2 digits (and the number of 'decimal_places' is presumably 0). Which would end up as a waste of storage space, imo. Ticket 2365 ( http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/2365 ) discusses this problem, although from another viewpoint. I'd like a floating point value/field (or double, but that's the same in Python, though not in every db) with a number of significant digits. The latter can be stored in a separate field (unsigned int), but for the first one (float/double), the current FloatField would be storage overkill, while using a TextField wouldn't allow proper sorting on value in the db. Does anyone have a suggestion? With the fast changes in Django currently, I'm not too inclined to hack the source code and add a field (changes are I just mess up anway), but I'm a bit at loss what's a good solution. Thanks, Evert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
