Message 107097 - Python tracker

Message107097

Author	mark.dickinson
Recipients	belopolsky, mark.dickinson, mcherm, rhettinger, stutzbach, tim.peters, vstinner
Date	2010-06-04.20:21:59
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> The timedelta(seconds=0.6112295) example is handled correctly No, it's not! It's being rounded up where it should be being rounded down. > because 0.6112295 sec is not half way between two nearest microseconds Exactly. The actual value stored by the C double is a little closer to 0.611229 than to 0.611230.

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> The timedelta(seconds=0.6112295) example is handled correctly

No, it's not!  It's being rounded *up* where it should be being rounded *down*.

> because 0.6112295 sec is not half way between two nearest microseconds

Exactly.  The actual value stored by the C double is a little closer to 0.611229 than to 0.611230.

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