On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Daniel Fetchinson <fetchin...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Thanks, it's simpler indeed, but gives me an error for value=1.267, > error=0.08: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/home/fetchinson/bin/format_error", line 26, in <module> > print format_error( sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2] ) > File "/home/fetchinson/bin/format_error", line 9, in format_error > error_scale += error.scaleb( -error_scale ).to_integral( ).adjusted( ) > File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/decimal.py", line 3398, in scaleb > ans = self._check_nans(other, context) > File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/decimal.py", line 699, in _check_nans > other_is_nan = other._isnan() > AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute '_isnan' > > Which version of python are you using?
2.7.1. At a guess, it's failing because scaleb() (which was new in 2.6) is buggily expecting a decimal argument, but adjusted() returns an int. Convert the results of the two adjusted() calls to decimals, and I think it should be fine. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list