Formatting numbers

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk qrczak at knm.org.pl
Wed May 2 04:36:52 EDT 2001


Wed, 02 May 2001 01:04:50 GMT, Rainer Deyke <root at rainerdeyke.com> pisze:

>>    >>> str(12345/100.0)
>>    '123.45'
> 
> You got lucky.  Never, ever use floating point if you want an exact number.

As long as there number of significant digits is not too large and
previous computations were done on integers, this is OK.

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