Especially since international phone numbers can start with 0--try storing that in an integer field, and you'll immediately run into problems.
On Mar 13, 8:43 am, Ozan Onay <ozan.o...@gmail.com> wrote: > As Karen pointed out, you should consider a phone number to be a > string, not an integer. Integers are there to do mathematical > operations on, which I can't imagine you requiring for a phone number > (what's the relevance of my phone no. + 5?). Also anything that you > would want to do with a phone number would be attained more naturally > through string methods. Say you wanted to retrieve the last 4 digits - > using phone_str[-4:] makes more sense than phone_int % 10000. > > Don't be fooled by the fact that that phone numbers have numerals in > them - phone "numbers" could well have used alphabetical characters, > or colors, or anything else that could map to a series of frequencies. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
