Can anyone spot my float error?

[Alex Martelli]

"Richard Harvey" <tririch at connect.net> wrote in message
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> I'm seeing an extrememly wacky effect in 1.5.2, and the code is so simple
> I'm baffled that I cannot see the error. Here is a snippet:
>
> timer = 0.0
>
> def testFunc():
>     global timer
>     timer = timer + 0.5
>     if timer > 10.0:
>         print "timer > 10"
>
> If I repeatedly call testFunc in a loop, my print statement never gets
> called. However, if I change the code to the following everything works

I can't reproduce your problem.  Saving this code in Script1.py,
importing it, and running:

>>> for i in range(23):
...  Script1.testFunc()
...

I obtain the output:

timer > 10
timer > 10
timer > 10
>>>

just as expected.  What's your Python build...?


Alex