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Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 09:09:07 +1100
From: Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Odd ValueError using float
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On 14Mar2015 08:28, Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> wrote:
>It ran almost to completion before generating the error again --
>
>(Pdb) decval
>'4'
>(Pdb) type(decval)
><type 'str'>
>(Pdb) len(decval)
>1
>(Pdb) int(decval)
>*** ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '41.700000000000003'
>
>So there's still something amiss.

Am I missing something obvious here? int() likes only ints, not floats:

    Python 2.7.9 (default, Dec 13 2014, 15:13:49)
    [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 6.0 (clang-600.0.56)] on darwin
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
    >>> int('1.3')
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
    ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '1.3'

    Python 3.4.3 (default, Feb 27 2015, 00:22:26)
    [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 6.0 (clang-600.0.56)] on darwin
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
    >>> int('1.3')
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
    ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '1.3'

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>

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