Dick Moores wrote: > Thanks, Kent. So I go with working up "an algorithm for first > converting n to an int (for > example, multiplying the above n by 1000), converting to a string, > putting the decimal point back in between indices 2 and 3, then using > that string as n (thereby avoiding the use of quotes around n as the > first argument)."
I really don't know what you mean by this. You are lost as soon as you write 232.3452345230987987098709879087098709870987098745234 without quotes, there is no float literal with that value. You could pass the integer 2323452345230987987098709879087098709870987098745234 as the argument if you always have the implied decimal point in the same place. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor