control precision for str(obj) output?

[Andrew Dalke]

Mike Meyer wrote:
> Someone want to tell me the procedure for submitting FAQ entries, so I
> can do that for this?

You mean more than what already exists at
  http://www.python.org/doc/faq/general.html#why-are-floating-point-calculations-so-inaccurate

which has a link to an even more detailed chapter in the tutorial at
  http://docs.python.org/tut/node16.html

?

				Andrew
				dalke at dalkescientific.com