[Tutor] How to ignore some decimal values?

[Kirby Urner]

>
>You could also use fpformat, which seems to do the same thing :-).
>
> >>> import fpformat
> >>> a = 5.44444
> >>> i = 1
> >>> print fpformat.fix(a, i);
>5.4
> >>>
>
>--
>Mando

Actually fpformat.fix, like equivalent % format
expression, rounds up, does't truncate.  e.g.

 >>> print fpformat.fix(5.08,1)
5.1

But the question was how to simply drop a digit
(truncate), not round it up, i.e. you'd get 5.0
not 5.1

Kirby