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How Python Compares Floats and Ints: When Equals Isn’t Really Equal (blog.codingconfessions.com)
submitted 8 months ago by abhi9u to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They wouldn't be running into an issue, but creating one, that's different

[–] Sylvartas 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Meh. Imo anyone comparing an integer to a float and not expecting one of them to be implicitly casted to the other's type will create that issue for themselves when doing the same thing with an explicit cast.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

What I meant is, the former can be a genuine mistake, the latter is a conscious (probably uneducated) decision