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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