Jacob's comment on #django-dev:
> that's been discussed ad-nauseum in the past. models don't
> have __setattr__ hooks for speed, so you can say
> "model.intfield = "Fish"" for all Django cares.
> [...] it's a well-known problem, but one without a "good" fix.
> I think model validation will prob
According to the backwards incompatible changes wiki page:
> you must either store a python decimal value in the model attribute or a
> string (which will then be converted to a decimal)
But what is "then" in "will then be converted"? It appears that the
conversion doesn't take place when initi
