[Tutor] sales tax

[Ian Witham]

As Michael points out, you need to explicitly use the round function, as the
float formatting merely truncates anything after the second decimal place.

I ran across a similar problem with the int() fuction early on. Anything
after the decimal point is truncated, not rounded, leading to behavior I was
not expecting.

For example:

int(-1.5) == -1
int(-.5) == 0
int(.5) == 0
int(1.5) == 1

Ian


On 9/19/07, Christopher Spears <cspears2002 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I wrote a script that takes a price and a sales tax
> and calculates the new price.
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
>
> def calculate_price(price, percent_tax):
>     sales_tax = price * percent_tax
>     new_price = price + sales_tax
>     return new_price
>
> price = float(raw_input("Enter a price: "))
> percent_tax = float(raw_input("Enter a sales tax: "))
> print "%.2f" % calculate_price(price, percent_tax)
>
> Here is the script in action:
> io at io-station-1 ./chap5 173> python sales_tax.py
> Enter a price: 10.00
> Enter a sales tax: .0825
> 10.82
>
> I'm not convinced that the new price is completely
> accurate because the price without the string
> formating is 10.825
>
> io at io-station-1 ./chap5 164> python sales_tax.py
> Enter a price: 10
> Enter a sales tax: .0825
> 10.825000
>
> Wouldn't the price be rounded up to 10.83 in the real
> world?  How can I accomplish this?
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