Yes, that would get rid of the decimals... but it wouldn't get rid of the extraneous precision. Unfortunately, the precision out to the ten thousandth is noise... I don't need to round it either as the numbers are artifacts of an integer to float conversion. Basically, I need to know how many decimal places there are and then make the necessary deletions before I can normalize by adding zeros, multiplying, etc.
Thanks for your suggestion, though. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list