Reading a comma delimited file

[Bryan L. Fordham]

> Here's what it looks like when I'm done:
> 
> [('Cotulla',  28.449999999999999,  99.216700000000003,  1960.0,  2.0,  11.1,
> 20.0,  0.0,  167.30000000000001),
>  ('Cotulla',  28.449999999999999,  99.216700000000003,  1960.0,  3.0,
> 6.0999999999999996,  13.9,  0.0,  239.0)]
> 
> Just what I need except I don't want all those decimal places.  

Are you not happy with the number of decimal places?

If so, play around with this:
>>> x='1.234567'
>>> float(x)
1.234567
>>> import fpformat
>>> fpformat.fix(float(x),2)
'1.23'
>>> fpformat.fix(float(x),0)
'1'

Hope that helps...
--B