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

[Adam W.]

On Aug 11, 12:53 pm, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj_... at gmx.net> wrote:
> If `str()` would not round you would get very long numbers because of the
> inaccuracies of floating point values.  I know Python is lying when 0.1
> prints as 0.1, but do you really want to see
> 0.10000000000000000555111512312578270211815834045410156250 instead?

I want str() to convert whatever I give it to a string and do nothing
else.  I will worry about long FP values in previous steps.  I still
find it very disturbing that str() is doing this AND it is
undocumented in all of my books.

> Use string formatting to tell the number of digits you want to see:
>
> In [16]: '%.56f' % 0.1
> Out[16]: '0.10000000000000000555111512312578270211815834045410156250'

The book I used to learn Python never introduced string formatting, I
suppose I will have to use another and learn it if that is the only
way...