Den 08/01/2014 kl. 17.56 skrev Daniel Roseman <dan...@roseman.org.uk>: > > No, no, no. None of this is true. > > Decimals are not a differently-formatted version of floats. Decimals are not > a built-in datatype in Python, it's true, but they are provided in the > standard library in (not surprisingly) the `decimal` module. As the > documentation for that module explains, decimals do provide precise > floating-point arithmetic, and are therefore suitable for representing things > like currencies. Databases usually also provide a similar datatype, which > Django's DecimalField maps to.
Greatly embarrassed, and thanks for clarifying. Will be more careful when answering next time :-) Erik -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/1B875D7F-C10E-4BD1-9990-FDED6F8F1A89%40cederstrand.dk. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
