[issue17259] Document round half to even rule for floats

[Mark Dickinson]

Mark Dickinson added the comment:

> From what I read in the thread it seems to be more like a bug rather than
> something to just be documented, right?

No, both round and formatting are working as expected: it's just a bit unfortunate that they use different rounding modes in 2.x.  It's not something that it would make sense to change in 2.7 at this stage---any such change would likely break a lot of code.

----------

_______________________________________
Python tracker <report at bugs.python.org>
<http://bugs.python.org/issue17259>
_______________________________________