[Python-Dev] Round Bug in Python 1.6?

[Christian Tismer]

Hi,

asa side effect, I happened to observe the following rounding bug.
It happens in Stackless Python, which is built against the
pre-unicode CVS branch.

Is this changed for 1.6, or might it be my bug?

D:\python\spc>python
Python 1.5.42+ (#0, Mar 29 2000, 20:23:26) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> round(3.1415926585, 4)
3.1415999999999999
>>> ^Z

D:\python>python
Python 1.5.2 (#0, Apr 13 1999, 10:51:12) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> round(3.1415926585, 4)
3.1416
>>> ^Z

ciao - chris

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