If 5 and 5.00 and 5.000 are all different, then why does Django’s decimal field save without the .00 even when I have decimal_places=2
?
More importantly, how can I save a value 5.00 as 5.00 in Django without using String.
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If 5 and 5.00 and 5.000 are all different, then why does Django’s decimal field save without the .00 even when I have decimal_places=2
?
More importantly, how can I save a value 5.00 as 5.00 in Django without using String.
I think it would be more correct to say those are different representations of the same value ‘5’.
Internally, the value saved (unless you’re actually storing a string) is 5.
When the value is displayed, ie converted to a string representation for the screen, it might be shown as 5, 5.00 or 5.000 but internally, it’s still 5
The two decimal places do not appear (if I can put it that way) until the value is output.
You can’t save a number with 2 decimal places unless you use a string.