M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > I suppose you don't know about the optional argument > to round that lets you round up to a certain decimal ?!
Yes, I know about, but I rarely if ever use it. Rounding a binary float to a number of decimal places seems a fundamentally ill-considered thing to do anyway. What are the use cases for it, given that one can easily select a number of decimal places when formatting a number for display? > If we were to follow your suggestion, we'd have round() > return an integer when called without the argument and > a float when called with the argument. No, round() wouldn't have that option at all. If you wanted it, you would use fround() instead, which would have the option and return a float always. This would be a Py3k thing, obviously. If done before then, the new function would have to be given a different name. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
