Fredrik Lundh wrote: > "mrstephengross" wrote: > > > >But, assuming you have your numbers as strings, I would suggest > > looking > > at str.split() and len(). > > > > Well, the numbers are in fact stored as numbers, so string processing > > won't work. > > if they're not strings, your question is meaningless. as others have > pointed out, the exact internal representation for 0.103 is more like > 0.10299999999999999433786257441170164383947849273681640625 > which has a lot more than 3 digits...
Actually, it's more like 0 01111111011 1010010111100011010100111111011111001110110110010001 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list