#30290: Documentation should make clear that values on DecimalField is better
to be
passed as strings
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Reporter: Alexandros | Owner: nobody
Kanterakis |
Type: | Status: new
Cleanup/optimization |
Component: Documentation | Version: 2.1
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Triage Stage:
| Unreviewed
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 1 | UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by Carlton Gibson):
I'm kind of sympathetic to this, because it may well be the first instance
in which beginners come across this kind of ''computer weirdness''.
However... I'm not sure the model field reference is the place to teach
this kind of thing **and** we already like to the ''FloatFields vs
DecimalFields'' discussion, and from there to the `decimal` docs.
This discussion is a bit advanced for the situation in mind, so I wonder
if linking **instead** to the
[https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/stdlib2.html#decimal-floating-point-
arithmetic Decimal Floating Point Arithmetic section of the Python
Tutorial] (which itself links back to the `decimal` docs) wouldn't be a
win?
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