On 2 Jun 2005 23:34:52 -0700, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> i want to trunkate 199.999 to 199.99 > >> getcontext.prec = 2 isn't what i'm after either, all that does > >> is E's the value. do i really have to use floats to do this? > > The precision is the total number of digits (i.e 199.99 has 5 digit > precision). Either round to that precision level or use the quantize > method to round to a fixed number of places after the decimal point: God, I must stop sending mails at 2AM. I replied doing the remark that some burden should be taken at the beggining of the program, and I repeated that mistake, confusing everybody. Sorry, :( . Facundo Blog: http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/plog/ PyAr: http://www.python.org/ar/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
