Convert '165.0' to int

[rantingrick]

On Jul 22, 7:42 am, Hrvoje Niksic <hnik... at xemacs.org> wrote:
> Frank Millman <fr... at chagford.com> writes:
> > int(float(x)) does the job, and I am happy with that. I was just
> > asking if there were any alternatives.
>
> int(float(s)) will corrupt integers larger than 2**53, should you ever
> need them.  int(decimal.Decimal(s)) works with numbers of arbitrary
> size.

Correct!

>>> '{0:,.0f}'.format(2**53)
'9,007,199,254,740,992'

That's nine-quadrillion people! Only for galactic measurements or
microscopic reasons would you need such large numbers.

PS: GAWD i love that new string format function!