Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
The docstring is better than the current doc as it says that the default
precision is 0, without calling that the default for ndigits.
''' round(number[, ndigits]) -> number
Round a number to a given precision in decimal digits (default 0 digits).
This returns an int when called with one argument, otherwise the
same type as the number. ndigits may be negative.'''
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Sidenote: To write round in Python, one could easily write
_sentinel = object
def round(number, ndigits=_sentinel):
if ndigits is _sentinel: ...
which makes ndigits positional-or-keyword, and almost optional-with-no-default,
as _sentinel is close enough to being a default that cannot be passed in. This
is a standard idiom. One who was really picky about having no default could use
def round(number, *args, **kwds): ...
and look for len(args) == 1 xor kwds.keys() == {'ndigits'}.
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nosy: +terry.reedy
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