Please ignore my last email. The idea for combining trunc, ceil, floor, etc was probably just a distractor.
[GvR] > One thing I'm beginning to feel more and more strongly about > is that round, trunc, ceil and floor all belong in the same > category, and either should all be builtins or should all > be in math. +1 for all four going into the math module. > I should also admit that the 2-arg version of round() was > borrowed from ABC, but the use case for it there doesn't map > to Python: in ABC it's the only tool you have for floating point > formatting on output, while in Python the same thing would > typically be done with "%.2f" % x rather than round(x, 2). +1 for deprecating the second argument to round(). Raymond _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
