Re: Understanding FloatFields

2006-04-14 Thread Nebojsa Djordjevic
DavidA wrote: > Is the convention to just use float() or Decimal() > whenever I need to use it as a number? I'm not sure what is the final decision, but in my first try in implementing validate and to_python methods (in MR) I use Decimal as return type for the FloatField. OTOH, maybe we can

Understanding FloatFields

2006-04-13 Thread DavidA
I'm a little confused about FloatFields and I was hoping someone could shed some light. They seem to be represented in the DB as 'numeric' but exist in Python as strings: class FundCapital(models.Model): fund = models.ForeignKey(Fund) date = models.DateField() capital =