kj wrote: > I understand that, in Python 2.7 and 3.x >= 3.1, when the interactive > shell displays a float it shows "the shortest decimal fraction that > rounds correctly back to the true binary value". Is there a way > to access this rounding functionality from code that must be able > to run under version 2.6? (The idea would be to implement float > comparison as a comparison of the rounded versions of floats.)
Doesn't float(str(x)) == x for all x imply that str(x) == str(y) if and only if x == y? If so, what would be the benefit of converting to string at all? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
