How to truncate/round-off decimal numbers?

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.7238.1150794927.27775.python-list at python.org>,
Girish Sahani <girish at cse.iitb.ac.in> wrote:
>
>I want to truncate every number to 2 digits after the decimal point. I
>tried the following but it doesnt work.
>
>>>> a = 2
>>>> b = 3
>>>> round(a*1.0 / b,2)
>0.67000000000000004
>
>Inspite of specifying 2 in 2nd attribute of round, it outputs all the
>digits after decimal.

You should also consider switching to the decimal module if you care
about getting correct results.
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