[Tutor] Rounding to n significant digits

[Skipper Seabold]

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Skipper Seabold<jsseabold at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Richard Wagner<wagnerr at umich.edu> wrote:
>> I'm fairly new to Python and am trying to find a simple way to round floats
>> to a specific number of significant digits.  I found an old post on this
>> list with exactly the same problem:
>>
>
> Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Apr  4 2009, 17:56:17)
> [GCC 4.3.3] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> print round(2.555555, 2)
> 2.56
>
> http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#round
>
> Skipper
>

Sorry didn't read carefully enough.