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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 13:49:43 -0600
Subject: Re: Short-circuit Logic
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On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> wrote:
> On 2013-05-30, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Steven D'Aprano
>><steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
>>> # Wrong, don't do this!
>>> x = 0.1
>>> while x != 17.3:
>>>     print(x)
>>>     x += 0.1
>>
>> Actually, I wouldn't do that with integers either.
>
> I propose borrowing the concept of significant digits from the
> world of Physics.
>
> The above has at least three significant digits. With that scheme
> x would approximately equal 17.3 when 17.25 <= x < 17.35.
>
> But I don't see immediately how to calculate 17.25 and 17.35 from
> 17.3, 00.1 and 3 significant digits.

How about this:

while round(x, 1) != round(17.3, 1):
    pass

The second round call may be unnecessary.  I would expect the parser
to ensure that round(17.3, 1) == 17.3, but I'm not certain that is the
case.