Toon Pieton wrote:
> Hey all!
> 
> My memory seem to have a horrible leak. How does one limit the amount of 
> decimal spaces for a float? I used to know that...
> 
> Example: not 5.398042156, but 5.4 (if I decide to have only one place).

For printing, use %.1f :

In [2]: print '%.1f' % 5.398042156
5.4

If you want to limit the precision of computations maybe the Decimal 
module would help.

Kent
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