from __future__ import division from django import forms from math import * safe_list = ['math','acos', 'asin', 'atan', 'atan2', 'ceil', 'cos', 'cosh', 'de grees', 'e', 'exp', 'fabs', 'floor', 'fmod', 'frexp', 'hypot', 'ldexp', 'log', 'log10', 'modf', 'pi', 'pow', 'radians', 'sin', 'sinh', 'sqrt', 'tan', 'tanh'] safe_dict = dict([ (k, locals().get(k, None)) for k in safe_list ]) safe_dict['abs'] = abs class MathFloatField(forms.FloatField): "FloatField which allows math expressions" def clean(self, value): try: return float(eval(value, {"__builtins__":None}, safe_dict)) except: raise forms.ValidationError("Enter a number or math expression")