Why did round() change in Python 2.4? $ python2.3 Python 2.3.5 (#2, Jun 19 2005, 13:28:00) [GCC 3.3.6 (Debian 1:3.3.6-6)] on linux2 >>> round(0.0225, 3) 0.023 >>> "%.3f" % round(0.0225, 3) '0.023' >>> $ python2.4 Python 2.4.1 (#2, Jul 12 2005, 09:22:25) [GCC 4.0.1 (Debian 4.0.1-1)] on linux2 >>> round(0.0225, 3) 0.021999999999999999 >>> "%.3f" % round(0.0225, 3) '0.022' >>>
(Is this due to the different GCC used?) How do you correctly output floating-point numbers in 2.4? I do not like the "print number + EPS" solution, as you would need different EPS for different exponent sizes. In C you could get it by taking integer 1, and &-ing in the right exponent, and then casting to double via void*. This would not be very portable, though. Klem fra Nils -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
