[Tutor] Strange range and round behaviour

[Lee Harr]

> Just out of curiosity does anyone know why you get a deprecation warning if
> you pass a float to range but if you use round, which returns a float, there
> is no warning?


It has nothing to do with the round.
It's just that the warning is only shown once:

$ python
Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Apr 16 2010, 13:09:56) 

[GCC 4.4.3] on linux2

>>> range(2.0)
__main__:1: DeprecationWarning: integer argument expected, got float
[0, 1]
>>> range(2.0)
[0, 1]
>>> 
$ python
Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Apr 16 2010, 13:09:56) 
[GCC 4.4.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> range(round(2.0))
__main__:1: DeprecationWarning: integer argument expected, got float
[0, 1]
>>> range(round(2.0))
[0, 1]

 		 	   		  
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