Dict handling of floats

Jim Richardson warlock at eskimo.com
Thu Apr 24 22:14:01 EDT 2003


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I have come across a weirdness. I have a number of floats, (lat long
pairs) which I stuff into a dict, but when I take them out, my nice %2f4
number, (say, 47.5894) is something long and *almost* right, like
47.589333333333333339. What gives? I am not doing anything special as
far as I can tell, just stuffing the numbers into a dict, and recalling
it later. This is with Python 2.2 on Linux, and no, it's not an original
Pentium :)

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