[Python-bugs-list] Inaccuracy of <= to two or more decimal places (PR#351)

[Skip Montanaro]

    Raj> Hello. K. Sandretto and I believe we found the "<=" operator
    Raj> functions like a "<" when incrementing loop variables with numbers
    Raj> smaller than 0.1.

No, you're just experiencing the inexactness of floating point arithmetic.
You'd get the same results if you wrote your code in C.

To avoid this particular case try the following code instead, which avoids
the comparison of floating point numbers and only computes the interesting
value when it's needed:

    LoopVariable = 0
    Increment = 5
    while LoopVariable <= 100:
          print LoopVariable / 100.0
          LoopVariable = LoopVariable + Increment

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