Mark Dickinson added the comment: Sorry; this is just the way that (binary) floating-point works. See http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/floatingpoint.html for more (or Google 'binary floating point' for a host of references).
If you're doing financial calculations, you may want to look into the decimal module: http://docs.python.org/2/library/decimal.html ---------- nosy: +mark.dickinson resolution: -> invalid status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19807> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
