Dict handling of floats

[Michael Hudson]

Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> writes:

> In article <98imn-ust.ln1 at grendel.myth>, Jim Richardson wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> That's floats.  The best you can hope for is "almost right".

Well, in some circumstances you can hope for a bit more than that.
But unless you're very careful, this is probably a good rule of thumb.

Cheers,
M.

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