On Jul 27, 8:45 pm, pigmartian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it could be that 3.0 is using "banker's rounding" --- rounding to the > even digit. the idea behind it behind it being to reduce error > accumulation when working with large sets of values. > > > Works for me on Python 2.5 on Linux running on "Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo > > CPU". What system are you on? > > > It could be that 2.5 is really 2.49999... which would round down to 2, > > but on any modern CPU (using IEEE floating point), 2.5 should be > > representable exactly. > >
That's exactly what's happening, pigmartian. Thank you for explaining the reasoning behind this change. So am I relegated to building my own round() function that behaves like the original function? Or did they move the functionality to a new method somewhere for backwards-compatibility? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
