On Feb 25, 10:44 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi I'm very much a beginner with Python. > I want to write a function to convert celcius to fahrenheit like this > one: > > def celciusToFahrenheit(tc): > tf = (9/5)*tc+32 > return tf > > I want the answer correct to one decimal place, so > celciusToFahrenheit(12) would return 53.6. > > Of course the function above returns 53.600000000000001. > > How do I format it correctly?
By the way, I tried this: return '%2.1f' % tf but that returns a string instead of a number. Any other suggestions? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list