Default User wrote: >>From "the emperor's new clothes" department: > > 1) Why do Python lists start with element [0], instead of element [1]? > "Common sense" would seem to suggest that lists should start with [1].
http://userweb.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831.html > 2) In Python 3, why is print a function only, so that: print "Hello, > World" > is not okay, but it must be print("Hello, World") instead? (Yeah, I know: > picky, picky . . . ) "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." > 3) In Python 3, why does 2.0 / 3.0 display as 0.6666666666666666, but 8 * > 3.57 displays as 28.56 (rounded off to 2 decimal places)? And yet, in > Python 2.6, 8 * 3.57 displays as 28.559999999999999? http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-October/092958.html and replies -- By ZeD -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
