On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 14:43 +1000, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > > 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.
By the way, there might be something in Christian Lenz's babel project, which isn't Django-specific, but a collection of useful localisation utilities. I can't remember off-hand if there's something for currency formatting or not. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
