[Python-Dev] The Case Against Floating Point ==

[Terry Reedy]

"Imri Goldberg" <lorgandon at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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| Most experienced programmers know that you shouldn't compare floating
| point numbers with ==.

As a general statement, this is wrong.  Mark gave examples.
Please drop the proposal.

The reason for the int division change is the idea that expressions 
involving integral values should, insofar as possible, have the same value 
result regardless of the types used to carry the input (or output) values. 
Hence 1/2 should equal 1.0/2.0 == .5.  The idea that 1 == 1 and 1.0 == 1.0 
should give a different answer goes against this principle and the 2.x 
project of number unification.

tjr