From a63b30671dc4de326045f28940ab2a0b8828b757 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Dickinson Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:33:29 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Merged revisions 76489 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r76489 | mark.dickinson | 2009-11-24 14:27:02 +0000 (Tue, 24 Nov 2009) | 1 line Fix some documentation examples involving the repr of a float. ........ --- Doc/faq/design.rst | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/faq/design.rst b/Doc/faq/design.rst index 94afaff14e4..c5af2fd4c3d 100644 --- a/Doc/faq/design.rst +++ b/Doc/faq/design.rst @@ -75,9 +75,9 @@ necessary to make ``eval(repr(f)) == f`` true for any float f. The ``str()`` function prints fewer digits and this often results in the more sensible number that was probably intended:: - >>> 0.2 - 0.20000000000000001 - >>> print 0.2 + >>> 1.1 - 0.9 + 0.20000000000000007 + >>> print(1.1 - 0.9) 0.2 One of the consequences of this is that it is error-prone to compare the result