On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote: > Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> writes: >> x = 1 - 1/2**53 >> assert x == 0.9999999999999999 > > In Python 2.x I don't see how that assert can possibly succeed, since > x is the integer 1. But I tested it anyway on 2.7.5 under Fedora 19 > and it threw an assertion error.
Oh, duh. That was the problem on my 2.7.6 test as well. I added from __future__ import division, and now it runs to completion. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
