Re: [Python-Dev] builtin round 2.7

2010-08-07 Thread Mark Dickinson
2010/8/7 Mark Dickinson : > 2010/8/7 Kristján Valur Jónsson : >> Hi there. >> [...] >> But it appears that the builtin round() method also changed.  Whereas I see >> the changing of floating point representation in string formatting as not >> being very serious, why did the arithmetic function roun

Re: [Python-Dev] builtin round 2.7

2010-08-07 Thread Mark Dickinson
2010/8/7 Kristján Valur Jónsson : > Hi there. > [...] > But it appears that the builtin round() method also changed.  Whereas I see > the changing of floating point representation in string formatting as not > being very serious, why did the arithmetic function round() have to change? This was par

[Python-Dev] builtin round 2.7

2010-08-07 Thread Kristján Valur Jónsson
Hi there. I just hit a problem in my company, in the process of upgrading from stackless 2.5 to 2.7. Some rounding code, that was (foolishly) using "%.*f" string formatting to achieve floating point rounding started providing different results from before. I explained this away to QA and Develo