printing anomaly
Erik Max Francis
max at alcyone.com
Sun Mar 20 20:03:48 EST 2005
Paul Rubin wrote:
> What's the deal with this?
>
> >>> print 3.2
> 3.2
> >>> print [3.2]
> [3.2000000000000002]
> >>>
>
> Yes, I know that 3.2 isn't an exact binary fraction. I'm wondering
> why it's converted differently depending on whether it's in a list.
repr vs. str. The str of the sequence types prints the repr of their
contents.
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