Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment: This isn't a bug in Python: it's an unavoidable symptom of using binary floating-point arithmetic internally to store values.
I recommend looking at the last chapter of the Python tutorial, which gives a very nice explanation of floating-point issues. http://docs.python.org/3.1/tutorial/floatingpoint.html ---------- nosy: +mark.dickinson resolution: -> invalid status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8116> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
