From: Mark Dickinson Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:36:23 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Merged revisions 76491 via svnmerge from X-Git-Tag: v3.1.2rc1~306 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=53f143c02d0462d52c6d4d99c78b77ef7d7b9a8c;p=python Merged revisions 76491 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@www.python.org/python/branches/py3k ................ r76491 | mark.dickinson | 2009-11-24 14:33:29 +0000 (Tue, 24 Nov 2009) | 9 lines Merged revisions 76489 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r76489 | mark.dickinson | 2009-11-24 14:27:02 +0000 (Tue, 24 Nov 2009) | 1 line Fix some documentation examples involving the repr of a float. ........ ................ --- diff --git a/Doc/faq/design.rst b/Doc/faq/design.rst index 94afaff14e..c5af2fd4c3 100644 --- a/Doc/faq/design.rst +++ b/Doc/faq/design.rst @@ -75,9 +75,9 @@ necessary to make ``eval(repr(f)) == f`` true for any float f. The ``str()`` function prints fewer digits and this often results in the more sensible number that was probably intended:: - >>> 0.2 - 0.20000000000000001 - >>> print 0.2 + >>> 1.1 - 0.9 + 0.20000000000000007 + >>> print(1.1 - 0.9) 0.2 One of the consequences of this is that it is error-prone to compare the result