On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 21:23 -0700, Bobby Roberts wrote: > what is the best way to handle currency values and then display in the > correct currency for the current location. In the past, in other > programming languages, I usually set the field type to decimal, 4 > places and then when I printed the value on the screen, I just used > the included formatcurrency function which rounded to 2 decimal places > and put the right currency symbol.
You must have also stored the currency as well, then, right? Not just the amount, since 1.234 does not mean the same thing when prefixed by EUR as it does when prefixed by AUD. Django has a decimal field, so that plus a field containing the currency type and a short function should do the job here. There's nothing built in to do that, since it's not really related to being a web framework and is fairly straightforward to do in any case. One day (maybe even soon), we'll allow model fields that correspond to multiple columns in the database so that you can tie the amount and currency together (and even have the "display me" function on the model field). That day isn't here yet, however. Regards, Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
