day1/exercise/round_float.py
author Prabhu Ramachandran <prabhu@aero.iitb.ac.in>
Sat, 19 Jun 2010 01:27:20 -0400
branchscipy2010
changeset 409 4442da6bf693
parent 64 333092b68926
permissions -rw-r--r--
ENH: Minor cleanup. Also added slide to introduce IPython's %timeit and %time.

# round using int
n = 17.3 # any float
int (n + .5)

# round it off to first decimal place
round(amount * 10) / 10.0

# round it off to nearest 5 paise
round(amount * 20) / 20.0

# exchange two variables
a, b = b, a