Re: [Tutor] Decimal truncation, rounding etc.

2006-10-26 Thread Alan Gauld
"Joe Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > A typical line of code for me to read and edit will look like: > G01 G91 X7.12345 Y7. Z-0.0086 > The underlines is what I need to edit, as above. What underlines? email and news readers do not necessarily support rich text formatting. Do not assume tha

Re: [Tutor] Decimal truncation, rounding etc.

2006-10-25 Thread Joe Cox
Yes, I made a typo in the quantize. You are correct I am not able to read and parse the text file properly?  I just face that IDE screen and it's all white. I am lost.  -Original Message-From: Jason Massey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 4:25 PMTo:

Re: [Tutor] Decimal truncation, rounding etc.

2006-10-25 Thread Jason Massey
More specifically, Joe, where and what types of errors are you getting?When I type in your example exactly as above I get the following:>>>from decimal import *>>> Decimal('7.').quantize(Decimal('1.000'),rounding=decimal.ROUND_DOWN)Traceback (most recent call last):  File "", line 1, in ?NameE

Re: [Tutor] Decimal truncation, rounding etc.

2006-10-25 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Joe Cox wrote: > My next project is to read a doc file and do some number editing. > I can alter numbers in the Interactive Shell OK: > > import math > print round(7.12345,4) > 7.1234 > > from decimal import* > Decimal('7.0').quantize(Decimal('1.000'),rounding = > decimal.ROUND_DOWN) > Dec

[Tutor] Decimal truncation, rounding etc.

2006-10-25 Thread Joe Cox
My next project is to read a doc file and do some number editing. I can alter numbers in the Interactive Shell OK:   import mathprint round(7.12345,4)7.1234   from decimal import*Decimal('7.0').quantize(Decimal('1.000'),rounding = decimal.ROUND_DOWN)Decimal("7.")   But when I go in