Re: Odd ValueError using float

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Date	Sun, 15 Mar 2015 07:41:35 -0400
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On Sat, Mar 14, 2015, at 18:09, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> >So there's still something amiss.
> 
> Am I missing something obvious here? int() likes only ints, not floats:

What you're missing is that when directly examined in pdb, the value
appeared to be '4', but then when passed to the int constructor, it
appeared to be '41.700000000000003'. Something seriously messed-up is
going on.

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