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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:56:14 -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. ;-)