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Subject: Re: Working with decimals
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On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> wrote:
> So for one "import math" should never go inside a function; you should
> hoist it to the top of the file with all the other imports.

I'd say "never" is too strong (there are times when it's right to put
an import inside a function), but yes, in this case it should really
be at the top of the function.

However, you won't need the import at all if you let the formatting
function do the rounding for you.

ChrisA