Tim Peters tim.one at home.com
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]Arcady Genkin]
> Could someone point me to a place in the documentation where the float
> type is defined?

Probably.  But if you have grep or findstr, you can find it faster than I
can type it in.

> s it equivallent of C's double?

Yes, and on all platforms.  It *is* a native C double.  Similarly, a Python
int is a native C signed long (while a Python long is unbounded -- a
"bigint").

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