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Re: [Python-Dev] Why don't range and xrange threat floats as floats?

2008/11/5 L V <so******@yahoo .com>:
Why don't range and xrange threat floats as floats?
Is there any good reason range and xrange don't threat floats as floats but
as integers?
When I enter float arguments in a range, the floats are treated as integers.
(+ some warning)

This is how I think it should work:
>>>>range(0, 1, 0.1)
[0.0, 0.1000000000000 0001, 0.2000000000000 0001, 0.2999999999999 9999,
0.4000000000000 0002, 0.5, 0.5999999999999 9998, 0.6999999999999 9996,
0.8000000000000 0004, 0.9000000000000 0002]

I got these results by:
>>>>[x/10. for x in xrange(10)]

I'm not looking for alternatives, just for the reason that it works this
way.
Hi,

I don't think the Python developers list is th best list to post this
kind of question.

What version of Python did you use for this test?

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