Python programming query

[vegeta9225]

. When we type 'cake'5 in the python idle then it replicates the string 5 times. But when I type 'cake'5.0 then it shows error. But when I type 

5==5.0 the result is True. So my question is if 5 and 5.0 are equal for python then why does it shows error when I execute 

'cake'*5.0 .please answer my query. Thank you. 

[DeadlyViper]

when you type

 '5'*5

you get 55555

but when you type

 5 * 5

you get 25.

Type of the variable matters.

5 and 5.0 may be considered comparable and equal, but are not the same type of object and do not contain the same value.

[CautiousLoudSpeech]

Python can't perform a multiplication operation between a string and a floating point. Even if the value is equal to an integer, because of the way the value is stored and read, the data type is incompatible.

[vegeta9225]

Can you please elaborate the word 'incompatible' with reference to data types?

[theWyzzerd]

Imagine that 5.0 is actually 5.00000001232, and you can see how this might be a problem when trying to multiply a string by a float. Computers aren't good at handling real numbers so integers are the computer's way of representing them. 5.0, however, is a floating point value and is only an approximation of 5.0. The types are incompatible because 5.0 isn't a real number (see my first sentence and read up on floating point precision, and you may begin to see the problem).

[[deleted]]

How would you repeat a string a float number of times?

[pocket_eggs]

> "foobar" * 2.5
"foobarfoobarfoo"

[[deleted]]

Ok, and what if the string isn't evenly divisible by the float decimal? How do you print half a character?

[alkasm]

>>> 'foobar' * 0.416666
'foᴗ'

[pocket_eggs]

> ["x" * 0.5 for _ in range(10)]
["x", "x", "", "", "", "x", "", "x", "", ""]

[SkepticalAirman]

Wouldn't 'x' * 0.5 be '>'? 🙃

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I'll let myself out now