@Vedran:

> I have tons of these ideas, but usually am afraid of voicing them ...

Always good to have ideas brought up, so long as there's no expectation that every idea gets implemented. :-) But I think rounding a string is probably another one for the python-ideas mailing list. (Personally, I think I'd rather have easier ways to create Decimal objects than have strings become a kind of proxy for Decimal objects - e.g., `round(2.675d, 2)` rather than `round("2.657", 2)`.)