[Tutor] why gtk.Entry does not give me right answers?

Russel Winder russel at winder.org.uk
Mon Apr 23 17:36:44 CEST 2012


On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 01:08 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
[...]
> 
> * Use the decimal module instead of floats. You still have finite precision,
>   but you can choose how many *decimal* places to store instead of having a
>   fixed number of *binary* places. (But decimal is much slower.)

Alternatively use http://packages.python.org/bigfloat/ or possibly
http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/
> 
> By the way, the code that you sent is unreadable. Please make sure that you
> send plain text email, and that indentation is not lost. Without indentation,
> it is impossible to understand your code.

Indeed. The lack of indentation was a barrier to contemplating looking
at the code. Especially since indentation is meaningful in Python!

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