On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Daniel Roseman <[email protected]>wrote:
> > 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. > Thanks for this post Daniel. I was just about to bring up the fact ath Python (since 2.4) has had decimals and does provide a library of operations for them. http://docs.python.org/2/library/decimal.html Hence, my confusion about the DecimalField really using a float. -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. 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/CA%2B%3DOU3U2DUPsp7dNcUrZ%3DVTrm1k7XW3hZYcjkymUEeaW%2BuvsqA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
