id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	stage	has_patch	needs_docs	needs_tests	needs_better_patch	easy	ui_ux
19220	"Django admin form fields for a models.DecimalField with value 0 or 0.0 show ""0E-8"""	nebstrebor	antofik	"We use django admin as a client-facing backend, so we need to make it user friendly. I have a model with a bunch of DecimalFields representing nutritional data.

The fields all look like this:

{{{ g_carbs = DecimalField(max_digits=13, decimal_places = 8, null=True, blank=True) }}}

If the field is left blank, or if a non-zero value is provided, the admin form looks and works great. For example, for a non-blank, non-zero value like 10.5, it displays something like 10.50000000, which is fine.

The problem is that for any 0 values, the form field displays 0E-8 which, although technically correct, is not going to cut it for clients, who are not scientists or engineers for the most part and are unfamiliar with E notation.  We're using DecimalFields rather than FloatFields to avoid this type of notation.

I am not using a custom ModelForm or any custom admin tricks. Its just what gets auto-rendered by django admin for that model. "	Bug	closed	contrib.admin	1.4	Normal	fixed			Accepted	0	0	0	0	0	1