[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've never had any call to use floating point numbers and now that I > want to, I can't! > > *** Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, May 1 2007, 17:47:05) [MSC v.1310 32 > bit (Intel)] on win32. *** >>>> float (.3) > 0.29999999999999999 >>>> foo = 0.3 >>>> foo > 0.29999999999999999
A classic (if lengthy) read: http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html If you just want to see a pretty representation: >>> print 0.3 0.3 If you need a pretty string for use in code: >>> def pretty_fp(fpnum, prec=8): ... return ('%.8f' % fpnum).rstrip('0') ... >>> pretty_fp(0.3) '0.3' -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
