Who told str() to round my int()'s!!!

[Roel Schroeven]

Adam W. schreef:
> After a fair amount of troubleshooting of why my lists were coming
> back a handful of digits short, and the last digit rounded off, I
> determined the str() function was to blame:
> 
>>>> foonum
> 0.0071299720384678782
>>>> str(foonum)
> '0.00712997203847'
> 
> Why in the world does str() have any business rounding my numbers, and
> how do I get around this?

You could use repr() instead of str() (AFAIK that's what the interactive 
interpreter used to print your foonum), but in any case you should be 
aware of the limits inherent in floating point arithmetic and in 
conversions between decimal and binary fractions. See e.g. 
http://docs.python.org/tut/node16.html


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Roel Schroeven