[Python-Dev] Rounding float to int directly (Re: struct module and coercing floats to integers)

[Aahz]

On Tue, Aug 01, 2006, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>
> You often have a need for controlled rounding when doing financial
> calculations or in situations where you want to compare two floats
> with a given accuracy, e.g. to work around rounding problems ;-)
>
> The usual approach is to use full float accuracy throughout the
> calculation and then apply rounding a certain key places.

That's what Decimal() is for.

(Note that I don't care all that much about round(), but I do think we
want to canonicalize Decimal() for all purposes in standard Python where
people care about accuracy.  Additional float features can go into
NumPy.)
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