Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Why in the name of all that's holy would anyone want to manually round each and every intermediate calculation when they could use the Decimal module and have it do it automatically?
I agree that Decimal is the safest and probably easiest way to go, but saying that it "does the rounding automatically" is a bit misleading. If you're adding up dollars and cents in Decimal, no rounding is needed in the first place, because it represents whole numbers of cents exactly and adds them exactly. If you're doing something that doesn't result in a whole number of cents (e.g. calculating a unit price from a total price and a quantity) you'll need to think about how you want it rounded, and should probably include an explicit rounding step, if only for the benefit of someone else reading the code. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
