Newbie question about lists

[Robert Kern]

Austin Cox wrote:
> Hello, I just started with python and have run into a problem using
> lists.
> 
> If I enter:
>     li = [.25,.10,.05,.01]
> and then enter:
>     print li
> it'll output:
>     [0.25, 0.10000000000000001, 0.050000000000000003, 0.01]
> 
> Can anyone tell me why it does this, and how I can get just the value
> .10, and .05 into a list? Thanks.

http://docs.python.org/tut/node16.html

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