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Hello I have a quick question before I go and do a complicated loop full of type conversions and stuff.

While comparing two values, will this result in True?

0.1 == 0.10 (in floating point)

I'm really comparing members of a list and they might come out like this and I just wanted to make sure equal values will result in true for my if statements

Will this result in true or would I need to change the decimal point precision for one of them?

maazza
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spacedancechimp
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  • possible duplicate of [What is the best way to compare floats for almost-equality in Python?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5595425/what-is-the-best-way-to-compare-floats-for-almost-equality-in-python) – C.B. Apr 09 '15 at 14:57

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If you run 0.1 == 0.10 in IDLE and it will show that it evaluates to true.

Same goes for 0.1 == 0.10000, this will evaluate to true.

Danny Bentley
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  • Yeah I'm really comparing members of a list and they might come out like this and I just wanted to make sure equal values will result in true for my if statements. – spacedancechimp Apr 09 '15 at 15:04
  • If the value in the list is 0.1 or 0.100 or something to that effect it will be true when compared with 0.1 – Danny Bentley Apr 09 '15 at 15:08
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If you are doing decimal arithmetic that needs to be exact, unlike float, use the Decimal type.

Robert Jacobs
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