Re: Is Python terribly slow ?
Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl
Sun, 06 Feb 1994 18:19:25 +0100
> Note that the current string.atof doesn't always return a float:
>
> >>> 4/string.atof('5')
> 0
> >>> type( string.atof('5') )
> <type 'int'>
> >>>
>
> I expect that a side-effect of reimplementing it in C is that atof will
> always return a float (given legit input). True?
Yes. The behavior you noticed was completely unintentional...
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