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Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 09:01:09 +1000
Subject: Re: Proposal: === and !=== operators
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On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 4:14 AM, Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb@gmx.de> wrote:
> Bullshit. Comparing floats by their representation is *generally* a bad
> idea because of portability issues. You don't know if IEEE754 is used to
> represent floats on the systems that your code is used on.

No, you don't, but I think you can safely assume that 1.0 == 1.0 on
any system that Python runs on.

ChrisA