[EMAIL PROTECTED] enlightened us with: > if I put 'THE' = float(0.965) it returns 0.96555555549 or something > similar.
That's for the same reasons as you can't write 1/3rd in decimal notation. Computers can't write 1/10th in binary notation. Sybren -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list