> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>> 9.95 > 9.9499999999999993 >>>> "%.16g" % 9.95 > '9.949999999999999' >>>> round(9.95, 1) > 10.0 > > So it seems that Python is going out of its way to intuitively round > 9.95, while the repr retains the unnecessary digits.
The 2.6 result is simply incorrect. 9.95 cannot be represented as a floating point number; the number that is closest to it is actually smaller than 9.95. Rounding that number should give 9.9 (or something close to it - 9.9 cannot be represented, either), not 10.0. >>>> round(9.95, 1) > 9.9 > > Is the change to round() expected? Yes. It's a bug fix described in "What's new in Python 2.7" thus: Float-to-string and string-to-float conversions are correctly rounded. The round() function is also now correctly rounded. Not sure that this is correct English; I think it means that the round() function is now correct. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
