--- Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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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You can try this:
>>> test
5.3980421559999998
>>> print '%.2f' % (test)
5.40
>>>
The number gives the number of precision after the
decimal.
Eric
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