When handling numerical values in Python, the commonly used float type (floating-point number) actually has a significant weakness. That is, even simple decimals like '0.1' may not be represented ...

A float type variable is used to store real numbers with fractions (or floating point numbers). The float() method returns a float number from any received integer, numeric string or even a boolean!

I have an example that fails on linux boxes while it works on Mac OS X's python and protobuf implementation. The used protobuf version (both python lib and protoc compiler) is 3.3. The python version ...