The following field is meant to format money as a two places decimal (quantized). You can see that it returns a <decimal>.quantize(TWOPLACES) version of the stored decimal. When I view this in the Django admin however, it doesn't do that. If I put in 50 to a field that is using CurrencyField() and view it in the admin, I get 50 vs 50.00. Why is that?
from django.db import models
from decimal import Decimal
class CurrencyField(models.DecimalField):
"""
Only changes output into a quantized format. Everything else is the same.
"""
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
kwargs['max_digits'] = 8
kwargs['decimal_places'] = 2
super(CurrencyField, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
def to_python(self, value):
try:
return super(CurrencyField, self).to_python(value).quantize(Decimal('0.01'))
except AttributeError:
return None
Update: I tried putting return 'Hello World' in place of return super(CurrencyField, self).to_python(value).quantize(Decimal('0.01')) and it didn't even show 'Hello World' in the shell. It put out 50 again. Does this mean that when I access an attribute of a model that is a CurrencyField() it doesn't call to_python()?
