bug in modulus?

[jantod at gmail.com]

I think there might be something wrong with the implementation of
modulus.

Negative float values close to 0.0 break the identity "0 <= abs(a % b)
< abs(b)".

    print 0.0 % 2.0 # => 0.0
    print -1e-010 % 2.0 # =>1.9999999999

which is correct, but:

    print -1e-050 % 2.0 # => 2.0
    print -1e-050 % 2.0 < 2.0 # => False

This means I can't use modulus to "wrap around" before it reaches a
certain value. I'm using Python 2.4.2 on WindowsXP.

Thanks
Janto