On May 2, 4:12 pm, Esmail <ebo...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a Python construct to allow me to do something like
> this:
>
> for i in range(-10.5, 10.5, 0.1):
> ...
I'd recommend using integer arithmetic:
for ten_times_i in range(-105, 106):
i = ten_times_i / 10.0
...
This has the advantage that it's clear that
you want to include the endpoint 10.5. (*Did*
you want to include the endpoint?)
Presumably you'd want the float version
to be interpreted as:
i = -10.5
while i < 10.5:
...
i += 0.1
(which isn't *quite* right, because the
value of i that you end up with *after* the
while loop has run to completion is 0.1
more than the last value used within the
loop).
The big problem with this is that 0.1
is not exactly representable as a float, and
so the successive additions in the
assignment i += 0.1 are subject to
(small) rounding errors. As a result, it's
not clear whether the value of i for the last
loop is going to be 10.4+small_error or
10.5-small_error.
Mark
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