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Re: python 3.44 float addition bug?

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Date Sat, 21 Jun 2014 11:33:25 +1000
Subject Re: python 3.44 float addition bug?
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On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 10:57 AM, FraserL
<fraser.long+usenet@nospamgmail.com> wrote:
> #test code
> z = 0.01
> p = 0.0
> for x, y in enumerate(range(1, 20)):
>     p += z
>     print(p)
> #end

General tip when you think you've found a bug: Cut out everything that
isn't part of it. In this case, the enumerate has nothing to do with
what you're seeing, which is an artifact of floating-point arithmetic,
so a more classic loop header would simply be:

for i in range(19):

(Or some people will use _ to emphasize that the iterated-over values
are being ignored.)

The smaller you can make your test code, the more likely that people
will be able to see what's going on.

Also, when you're looking at how things print out, consider looking at
two things: the str() and the repr(). Sometimes just "print(p)"
doesn't give you all the info, so you might instead want to write your
loop thus:

z = 0.01
p = 0.0
for i in range(19):
    p += z
    print(str(p) + " -- " + repr(p))

Sometimes you can get extra clues that way, although in this instance
I think you won't.

ChrisA

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python 3.44 float addition bug? FraserL <fraser.long+usenet@NOSPAMgmail.com> - 2014-06-20 19:57 -0500
  Re: python 3.44 float addition bug? FraserL <fraser.long+usenet@gmail.com> - 2014-06-20 20:11 -0500
    Re: python 3.44 float addition bug? Gary Herron <gary.herron@islandtraining.com> - 2014-06-20 18:19 -0700
  Re: python 3.44 float addition bug? Gary Herron <gary.herron@islandtraining.com> - 2014-06-20 18:07 -0700
  Re: python 3.44 float addition bug? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-06-21 11:33 +1000
  Re: python 3.44 float addition bug? INADA Naoki <songofacandy@gmail.com> - 2014-06-21 10:06 +0900
  Re: python 3.44 float addition bug? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-06-21 14:25 +0000
  Re: python 3.44 float addition bug? Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> - 2014-06-21 12:24 -0700
    Re: python 3.44 float addition bug? buck <workitharder@gmail.com> - 2014-06-23 17:55 -0700
      Re: python 3.44 float addition bug? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-06-24 13:26 +1000
      Re: python 3.44 float addition bug? Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2014-06-24 17:30 +1200
      Re: python 3.44 float addition bug? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-06-24 06:34 +0000
  Re: python 3.44 float addition bug? Maciej Dziardziel <fiedzia@gmail.com> - 2014-06-25 14:12 -0700
    Re: python 3.44 float addition bug? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-06-26 02:56 +0000
      Re: python 3.44 float addition bug? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-06-26 13:13 +1000
        Re: python 3.44 float addition bug? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-06-26 04:17 +0000
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      Re: python 3.44 float addition bug? Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-06-26 13:39 +1000
        Re: python 3.44 float addition bug? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-06-26 09:15 +0000
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              Re: python 3.44 float addition bug? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-06-27 13:24 +1000
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