float / rounding question

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Mon Feb 25 15:14:38 EST 2008


<helen.m.flynn at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:d4d9e9d6-b0e0-4063-a5b2-456bcea5a6ce at z17g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
| Hi I'm very much a beginner with Python.
| I want to write a function to convert celcius to fahrenheit like this
| one:
|
| def celciusToFahrenheit(tc):
|    tf = (9/5)*tc+32
|    return tf

Unless you are importing 'integer division' or using 3.0, that should be 
9.0/5.0.

| I want the answer correct to one decimal place, so
| celciusToFahrenheit(12) would return 53.6.

As written, running above on 2.x returns 44.

tjr






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