I searched usages of is_integer() on GitHub and have found that it is
used *only* in silly code like (x/5).is_integer(), (x**0.5).is_integer()
(or even (x**(1/3)).is_integer()) and in loops like:
i = 0
while i < 20:
if i.is_integer():
print(i)
i += 0.1
(x/5).is_integer() is an awful way of determining the divisibility by 5.
It returns wrong result for large integers and some floats. (x % 5 == 0)
is a more clear and reliable way (or PEP 8 compliant (not x % 5)).
Does anybody know examples of the correct use of float.is_integer() in
real programs? For now it looks just like a bug magnet. I suggest to
deprecate it in 3.7 or 3.8 and remove in 3.9 or 3.10. If you even need
to test if a float is an exact integer, you could use (not x % 1.0). It
is even faster than x.is_integer().
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