They are decimals.

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:36 AM, C <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've not looked at the Satchmo code recently, but are these floats, or
> are they decimals?
>
> If they are floats, there are some significant accuracy issues that
> will eventually appear.
>
> Decimals get around these issues, but are only available with Python
> 2.4 and later.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris Dukes
>
> On May 10, 11:11 am, Bruce Kroeze <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Yes, it is normal.  That's because not every store sells items in whole
> unit
> > increments.  What if you had fabric, what would be the unit?  With a
> float,
> > you can have a unit be a yard, and sell smaller increments.
> >
> > Similarly with a store that sells by the pound.  No reason to force
> people
> > to buy a whole pound.
> >
> > I'm not sure why you'd want to change the datatype.  If you were
> insistently
> > determined to do so, then it would be a fork.  The displayed formatting
> is
> > done with our "moneyfmt" and decimal rounding templatetags.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 7:28 AM, craig <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > I noticed some fields are stored as floats with six decimal places.
> > > Both "Total sold" and "Number in stock" show up as a float with 6
> > > decimal places.
> >
> > > Is this normal and is it possible to change the formatting of these
> > > values without altering the db schema?
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