Reading a comma delimited file
Kristen Zander
kzander at hot.rr.com
Thu Nov 8 12:46:56 EST 2001
Well, I thought I had it but the last thing I did with the fpformat made
them string again.
Does the %f work just like in C?
%.2f,var
Skip Montanaro <montanaro at tttech.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.1005235753.29219.python-list at python.org...
>
> Kristen> Here's what it looks like when I'm done:
>
> Kristen> [('Cotulla', 28.449999999999999, 99.216700000000003,
1960.0, 2.0, 11.1,
> Kristen> 20.0, 0.0, 167.30000000000001),
> Kristen> ('Cotulla', 28.449999999999999, 99.216700000000003,
1960.0, 3.0,
> Kristen> 6.0999999999999996, 13.9, 0.0, 239.0)]
>
> Kristen> Just what I need except I don't want all those decimal
places.
>
> You're being victimized by floating point (im)precision. Details here:
>
> http://python.sourceforge.net/devel-docs/tut/node14.html
> http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw.py?req=show&file=faq04.098.htp
>
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