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

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Greg Ewing wrote:
> Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> 
>> I think this would harm more than it would help.  It more confusing to 
>> have several rounding-thingies to choose from than it is have an 
>> explicit two-step.
> 
> But is it more confusing enough to be worth forcing
> everyone to pay two function calls instead of one
> in the most common case?

I suppose you don't know about the optional argument
to round that lets you round up to a certain decimal ?!

If we were to follow your suggestion, we'd have round()
return an integer when called without the argument and
a float when called with the argument.

Dependency of the return type on arguments to a function
should be avoided, if possible.

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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