On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 1:52 AM, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Also, it would be useful to have a new method, float.is_integer(). This > would be better than the current approach where we make the > test: if x == floor(x). > How common is this test? Given the inexact nature of floating-point arithmetic, checking whether a float is exactly an integer seems like something that one might actually want to discourage, just like comparing two floats for equality. Also, what about having float.is_finite, as a quicker way to spell "not isinf(x) and not isnan(x)" +1 on making these methods of float; they're fundamental properties. Mark
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