Python wierdness

[Roger H]

In my Python musings I came across a bit of seeming wierdness.
I threw some code at the Python 1.5.2 command line to demonstrate:

    >>> # This function prints "bar" if the input
    ... # variable modulo 0.1 is equal to 0.1, and
    ... # "no bar" if it is not equal to 0.1:
    ...
    >>> def foo(n):
    ...     if n % 0.1 == 0.1:
    ...             print "bar"
    ...     else:
    ...             print "no bar"
    ...
    >>> # Here I create a variable x with the value 0.3:
    ...
    >>> x = 0.3
    >>>
    >>> # Let's check whether x modulo 0.1 is equal to 0.1:
    ...
    >>> x % 0.1
    0.1
    >>>
    >>> # Obviously, x modulo 0.1 is indeed equal to 0.1.
    ... # If we pass it to foo(), we should see "bar", right?
    ...
    >>> foo(x)
    no  bar
    >>>
    >>> # Hmmm... "no bar."  So foo() doesn't agree that
    ... # x modulo 0.1 is equal to 0.1, even though the
    ... # command line shows that it is.  Why not?

What's going on here, and how could one get around it?

~Roger the Shrubber~