On 01/25/2014 05:14 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:28:09PM -0500, bob gailer wrote:
And please call () parends and [] brackets, and{} braces. Saves a lot of
confusion.
If you think that parentheses are spelt with a "d", you're certainly
confused :-)
They're all bracket
On 01/24/2014 06:57 PM, Leon S wrote:
Here is what I'm trying to do, accept a price of gas, but I want to add the
.009 to the price, so that people do not have to type the full amount.
Example, 3.49 /gallon would return 3.499 /gallon.
This is what I have tried and the results of it.
def gas_p
On 01/25/2014 09:46 AM, spir wrote:
On 01/24/2014 06:57 PM, Leon S wrote:
Here is what I'm trying to do, accept a price of gas, but I want to add the
.009 to the price, so that people do not have to type the full amount.
Example, 3.49 /gallon would return 3.499 /gallon.
This is what I have tr
On 25/01/2014 03:28, bob gailer wrote:
And please call () parends and [] brackets, and{} braces. Saves a lot of
confusion.
Not in the UK or Australia, with the former being where English came from.
--
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for o
On 1/24/2014 10:28 PM, bob gailer wrote:
Sorry for misspelling parens.
My reason for requesting the various names is that it makes
communication clear, explicit and terse.
When someone says just "brackets" what does he actually mean?
For more grins see
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/
On 25 January 2014 08:57, spir wrote:
> On 01/25/2014 09:46 AM, spir wrote:
>>
>> On 01/24/2014 06:57 PM, Leon S wrote:
>>>
>>> Here is what I'm trying to do, accept a price of gas, but I want to add
>>> the
>>> .009 to the price, so that people do not have to type the full amount.
>>> Example,
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 3:57 AM, spir wrote:
>> .009 to the price, so that people do not have to type the full amount.
>> Example, 3.49 /gallon would return 3.499 /gallon.
>>
>> This is what I have tried and the results of it.
>>
>> def gas_price(price):
>> price == raw_input("What is the pr
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 3:57 AM, spir wrote:
> Note: AFAIK most financial software use integers for this reason and to
> avoid (or control) rounding errors.
I don't think this is true (no flame intended, hopefully you know I'm
forever in your debt Denis): there's a famous scam where insiders at a
On 25 January 2014 21:01, Keith Winston wrote:
>
> I think that you should probably do your math in floating point (why
> get complicated? And you might need the accuracy, for hundredths of
> dollars and interest) and then format the output to be what you want.
> Watch out for rounding.
It may no
On 25/01/14 19:39, bob gailer wrote:
On 1/24/2014 10:28 PM, bob gailer wrote:
Sorry for misspelling parens.
My reason for requesting the various names is that it makes
communication clear, explicit and terse.
When someone says just "brackets" what does he actually mean?
In UK English speakin
Also, just to be clear: I'd suggest floats because decimal requires
importing a module and using the non-built-in features thereof,
especially if you're going to do something like
decimal.getcontext().prec (even that doesn't set precision AFTER the
decimal point... only total precision). My point b
On 25/01/14 21:19, Keith Winston wrote:
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 3:57 AM, spir wrote:
Note: AFAIK most financial software use integers for this reason and to
avoid (or control) rounding errors.
I don't think this is true
I can't speak for the general case but the only major financial app I'v
On 25 January 2014 21:38, Keith Winston wrote:
>
> Also, just to be clear: I'd suggest floats because decimal requires
> importing a module and using the non-built-in features thereof,
Importing a module is not something to be afraid of. Python comes with
loads of modules especially so you can im
On 01/25/2014 10:01 PM, Keith Winston wrote:
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 3:57 AM, spir wrote:
.009 to the price, so that people do not have to type the full amount.
Example, 3.49 /gallon would return 3.499 /gallon.
This is what I have tried and the results of it.
def gas_price(price):
pri
On 01/25/2014 10:19 PM, Keith Winston wrote:
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 3:57 AM, spir wrote:
Note: AFAIK most financial software use integers for this reason and to
avoid (or control) rounding errors.
I don't think this is true (no flame intended, hopefully you know I'm
forever in your debt Deni
On 01/25/2014 10:38 PM, Keith Winston wrote:
Also, just to be clear: I'd suggest floats because decimal requires
importing a module and using the non-built-in features thereof
The issue is not that much whether it's supported by builtins, in software, but
by CPU's; which is not the case, so th
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 09:11:56AM +0100, spir wrote:
> As a foreigner, I noticed that english native speakers use both the series
> round / square / curly / angle brackets, and individual terms parens (no
> 'd' ;-) / brackets / braces / chevrons. No major issue, except for
> 'brackets' which c
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 02:39:11PM -0500, bob gailer wrote:
> On 1/24/2014 10:28 PM, bob gailer wrote:
>
> Sorry for misspelling parens.
>
> My reason for requesting the various names is that it makes
> communication clear, explicit and terse.
>
> When someone says just "brackets" what does he
On 26/01/2014 01:55, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
This is an international forum, and English an international language
with many slight differences between variations and dialects. Even in
American English alone, there are ambiguous terms. "Coke" could mean a
beverage by the Coca-Cola company, a gene
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Oscar Benjamin
wrote:
> Perhaps it would be better though to point at this:
round(D('0.123456'), 3)
> Decimal('0.123')
I think you are right. I didn't even think of round(). I think we have
confounded two issues in this thread, the internal
representation/acc
On 01/26/2014 02:12 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 09:11:56AM +0100, spir wrote:
As a foreigner, I noticed that english native speakers use both the series
round / square / curly / angle brackets, and individual terms parens (no
'd' ;-) / brackets / braces / chevrons. No maj
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