In article <mailman.11779.1405206078.18130.python-l...@python.org>, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 4:14 AM, Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsdu...@gmx.de> wrote: > > Bullshit. Comparing floats by their representation is *generally* a bad > > idea because of portability issues. You don't know if IEEE754 is used to > > represent floats on the systems that your code is used on. > > No, you don't, but I think you can safely assume that 1.0 == 1.0 on > any system that Python runs on. > > ChrisA But, you can still have: >>> print x 1.0 >>> print y 1.0 >>> print x == y False which, I know, isn't really what you were talking about, but it is part of the general confusion of using floats. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
