Duncan Booth wrote: > But you wouldn't complain about this would you? > > >>> print "%10.4f" % 1.23445 > 1.2345 > >>> print "%10.3f" % 1.23445 > 1.234 > > A value which is slightly than 1.2345 prints to 4 decimal places as 1.2345 > and to 3 decimal places as 1.234. > > That's all that happens with your value as well: 1.2345 is not exactly > representable as a floating point number, and the nearest representable > number is less than 1.2345.
This is the expected behavior though... even school when they first teach "rounding off", they will tell you 1.23445 rounding off to 3 decimal places is not 1.235.... and i don't see anything weird about the two lines above. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
