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Subject: Re: Rounding off Values of dicts (in a list) to 2 decimal points
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On Thursday, October 3, 2013 11:03:17 AM UTC-7, Neil Cerutti wrote:
> On 2013-10-03, tripsvt@gmail.com <tripsvt@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> > thekey=3D[{"a": 80.0, "b": 0.0, "c": 10.0, "d": 10.0}, {"a":
>=20
> > 100.0, "b": 0.0, "c": 0.0, "d": 0.0}, {"a": 80.0, "b": 0.0,
>=20
> > "c": 10.0, "d": 10.0}, {"a": 90.0, "b": 0.0, "c": 0.0, "d":
>=20
> > 10.0}]
>=20
> >
>=20
> > However, at the URL, the values show up as 90.000043278694123
>=20
>=20
>=20
> You'll need to convert them to strings yourself before submitting
>=20
> them, by using % formatting or str.format.
>=20
>=20
>=20
> --=20
>=20
> Neil Cerutti

I thought the class 'LessPrecise' converts them to strings. But even when I=
 try doing it directly without the class at all, as in str(round(v, 2)), it=
 gives all the expected values (as in {"a": "10.1", "b": "3.4", etc.}) but =
at the URL, it gives all the decimal places - 10.78324783923783