[Tutor] round()

[tpc at csua.berkeley.edu]

hi Wes, you want to use repr().  Here's a earlier post with an answer to a
similar question:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-August/118501.html

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Wes wrote:

> Hi,
> Why are the results different?
>
> x=2.5463
>
> >>>round(x,2)
> 2.5499999999999998
>
> >>>str(round(x,2))
> '2.55'
>
> Thanks,
> ~wes
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