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from ZCurrency import ZCurrency
from cgi import escape

def field2currency(v):
    # the currency constructor is quite smart at coercing lots of stuff 
    try:
        v = ZCurrency(v)
    except Exception, e:
        raise ValueError, 'Cannot convert <strong>%s (%s)</strong> to ZCurrency: %s' % (type(v), v, escape(str(e)))
    return v
 
