round() function strange behaviour

[brobbins333 at shaw.ca]

OK,  that's pretty much what I had in mind too.
Thanks for your help.

Bruce

On Sun, 10 Mar 2002 01:29:18 GMT, Erik de Castro Lopo
<nospam at mega-nerd.com> wrote:


>
>	erikd at coltrane > python
>	Python 2.1.2 (#1, Jan 18 2002, 18:05:45) 
>	[GCC 2.95.4  (Debian prerelease)] on linux2
>	Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>	>>> x = 56.78923
>	>>> x_as_string = "%.2f" % x
>	>>> print x_as_string
>	56.79
>
>Just what you want. Remember however that if you want to operate on the
>number using standard arithmetic you need to work on x rather than 
>x_as_string.
>
>Erik
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