[Python-Dev] Rounding float to int directly (Re: struct module and coercing floats to integers)

[BJörn Lindqvist]

On 8/2/06, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> Greg Ewing wrote:
> > In all my programming so far I've found
> > numerous uses for round-to-int, and exactly
> > zero uses for round-binary-float-to-decimal-
> > places. So from my point of view, the YAGNI
> > applies to the *current* behavour of round()!
>
> Most typical uses of round() don't use the
> optional argument, true, but I still fail
> to see what returning an integer instead of
> a float would buy you.

One hundred and sixty two type conversions!

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-- 
mvh Björn