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Re: Missing decimals in the code - some suggestions?

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From Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date 2013-04-17 00:56 -0600
Subject Re: Missing decimals in the code - some suggestions?
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On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:23 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:20:18 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote:
>
>> This isn't a Python question.  If you take a look at the csv file that
>> you download from Yahoo, you will see that it only contains 2 digits of
>> precision.  There's no way to make Python print out 4 digits of
>> precision when it is only provided with 2.
>
> Pish posh! It's easy to add extra precision.

It's easy to add extra /digits/.  Adding extra precision is much harder. ;-)

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Missing decimals in the code - some suggestions? hmjeltevik@gmail.com - 2013-04-16 11:02 -0700
  Re: Missing decimals in the code - some suggestions? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-04-16 12:20 -0600
    Re: Missing decimals in the code - some suggestions? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-04-17 06:23 +0000
      Re: Missing decimals in the code - some suggestions? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-04-17 00:56 -0600
  Re: Missing decimals in the code - some suggestions? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-04-16 19:35 +0100
  Re: Missing decimals in the code - some suggestions? Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-04-16 14:37 -0400

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