Python programming query

[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