results of division

Brad Tilley bradtilley at gmail.com
Thu Dec 9 10:52:58 EST 2004


Simon Brunning wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 09:38:55 -0500, Brad Tilley <bradtilley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>What is the proper way to limit the results of division to only a few
>>spaces after the decimal? I don't need rocket-science like precision.
>>Here's an example:
>>
>>1.775 is as exact as I need to be and normally, 1.70 will do.
> 
>  
> Use the new decimal type - <http://www.python.org/doc/2.4/whatsnew/node9.html>.

Ah, quantize() works great. Thank you for the tip.



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