2008/11/5 L V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Why don't range and xrange threat floats as floats? > Is there any good reason range and xrange don't threat floats as floats but > as integers? > When I enter float arguments in a range, the floats are treated as integers. > (+ some warning) > > This is how I think it should work: >>>>range(0, 1, 0.1) > [0.0, 0.10000000000000001, 0.20000000000000001, 0.29999999999999999, > 0.40000000000000002, 0.5, 0.59999999999999998, 0.69999999999999996, > 0.80000000000000004, 0.90000000000000002] > > I got these results by: >>>>[x/10. for x in xrange(10)] > > I'm not looking for alternatives, just for the reason that it works this > way.
Hi, I don't think the Python developers list is th best list to post this kind of question. What version of Python did you use for this test? Matthieu -- Information System Engineer, Ph.D. Website: http://matthieu-brucher.developpez.com/ Blogs: http://matt.eifelle.com and http://blog.developpez.com/?blog=92 LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/matthieubrucher -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
