PEP proposal for round(x,n) enhancement

Markus Schaber markus at schabi.de
Mon Sep 17 18:28:13 EDT 2001


Hi,

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ignacio at openservices.net> schrub:

> On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Markus Schaber wrote:
> 
>> Tim Peters <tim_one at email.msn.com> schrub:
>>
>> > BTW, complex numbers still have no meaning to round(), so you could
>> > use round(x, 3j) to mean "round to 3 significant digits" <wink>.
>>
>> Ouch.
>>
>> This "solutions" needs rather complex programmer brains :-)
> 
> Naw, just multiply by -1j and take the real component.

I didn't think about the implementors, but about the users :-)

markus
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