One other side effect of the problem noted in my message above is this:
If I enter "1e5" in the text field, it fails validation (as I'm
limiting it to -?\d+(\.\d+)? ), but the new_data entry still gets
converted to a Decimal instance, so the form displays an error message
but the data in the box
Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote:
>
> A good example might be to look at the ``DateField`` definition
> (http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/db/models/
> fields/__init__.py#L393).
>
> As far as I remember, the methods you'll want to play with are
> ``Field.to_python()``, ``Field.get_d
On Jul 21, 2006, at 11:46 AM, adurdin wrote:
> I'm trying to create a new database field type, and am not sure what
> method of models.Field I need to override to convert the value
> returned
> from the database to the appropriate Python type and vice-versa -- if
> indeed it should be done in mo
I'm trying to create a new database field type, and am not sure what
method of models.Field I need to override to convert the value returned
from the database to the appropriate Python type and vice-versa -- if
indeed it should be done in models.Field.
For the sake of example, assume I want to st
