Fixed #5903 -- DecimalField.get_default() now correctly returns a Decimal object when the model instance was not retrieved from the database. Thanks Justin Driscoll and pigletto.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@9823 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37

django/utils/encoding.py

@@ -1,8 +1,15 @@
 import types
 import urllib
 import datetime
+
 from django.utils.functional import Promise
 
+try:
+    from decimal import Decimal
+except ImportError:
+    from django.utils._decimal import Decimal # Python 2.3 fallback
+
+
 class DjangoUnicodeDecodeError(UnicodeDecodeError):
     def __init__(self, obj, *args):
         self.obj = obj
@@ -41,7 +48,7 @@ def force_unicode(s, encoding='utf-8', strings_only=False, errors='strict'):
 
     If strings_only is True, don't convert (some) non-string-like objects.
     """
-    if strings_only and isinstance(s, (types.NoneType, int, long, datetime.datetime, datetime.date, datetime.time, float)):
+    if strings_only and isinstance(s, (types.NoneType, int, long, datetime.datetime, datetime.date, datetime.time, float, Decimal)):
         return s
     try:
         if not isinstance(s, basestring,):