F. Petitjean wrote: > Le Thu, 02 Jun 2005 19:59:08 +1000, Timothy Smith a écrit : >> i want to trunkate 199.999 to 199.99 > > round(199.999, 2) # 2 digits after the decimal point
Wrong. This will yield 200.00.
>> do i really have to use floats to do this?
>
> 19.999 is a float :
> type(19.999) is float # ==> True
He is speaking of Decimals...
d = Decimal("199.999")
d._round(5, decimal.ROUND_DOWN)
Reinhold
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