In article <mailman.386.1308949143.1164.python-l...@python.org>
Jerry Hill <malaclyp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>I'm curious. Is there a way to get the number of significant digits
>for a particular Decimal instance?
Yes:
def sigdig(x):
"return the number of significant digits in x"
return len(x.as_tuple()[1])
import decimal
D = decimal.Decimal
for x in (
'1',
'1.00',
'1.23400e-8',
'0.003'
):
print 'sigdig(%s): %d' % (x, sigdig(D(x)))
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