Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> Please ignore my last email. The idea for combining trunc, ceil,
> floor, etc was probably just a distractor.
I was going to suggest the same round(n, mode="round_method_of choice") to
both round and int(), where int is more forgiving for input. But wasn't
convinced.
> [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.
Works for me.
It seems simple enough to just do ...
from math import round_even as round
This gives me the specific rounding behavior I want without a lot of noise.
Ron
>> 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
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