For systems programming I often use floats as timestamps in dictionaries, and in this case I never do calculations and all I care about is "same" or "different", meaning "any single bit difference". If you change the way == works and also follow through and change the way floats in dictionaries work you would probably break very many applications like this. I think any "almost equal" should be implemented using a new method or syntax x~=y rather than break things. - Aaron Watters http://www.xfeedme.com/nucular/pydistro.py/go?FREETEXT=stdio+stinks