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<div class="section" id="floating-point-objects">
<span id="floatobjects"></span><h1>Floating Point Objects<a class="headerlink" href="#floating-point-objects" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<dt id="PyFloatObject">
<tt class="descname">PyFloatObject</tt><a class="headerlink" href="#PyFloatObject" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>This subtype of <a class="reference internal" href="structures.html#PyObject" title="PyObject"><tt class="xref c c-type docutils literal"><span class="pre">PyObject</span></tt></a> represents a Python floating point object.</p>
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<dt id="PyFloat_Type">
<a class="reference internal" href="type.html#PyTypeObject" title="PyTypeObject">PyTypeObject</a> <tt class="descname">PyFloat_Type</tt><a class="headerlink" href="#PyFloat_Type" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>This instance of <a class="reference internal" href="type.html#PyTypeObject" title="PyTypeObject"><tt class="xref c c-type docutils literal"><span class="pre">PyTypeObject</span></tt></a> represents the Python floating point
type. This is the same object as <a class="reference internal" href="../library/functions.html#float" title="float"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">float</span></tt></a> in the Python layer.</p>
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<dt id="PyFloat_Check">
int <tt class="descname">PyFloat_Check</tt><big>(</big><a class="reference internal" href="structures.html#PyObject" title="PyObject">PyObject</a><em> *p</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#PyFloat_Check" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return true if its argument is a <a class="reference internal" href="#PyFloatObject" title="PyFloatObject"><tt class="xref c c-type docutils literal"><span class="pre">PyFloatObject</span></tt></a> or a subtype of
<a class="reference internal" href="#PyFloatObject" title="PyFloatObject"><tt class="xref c c-type docutils literal"><span class="pre">PyFloatObject</span></tt></a>.</p>
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<dt id="PyFloat_CheckExact">
int <tt class="descname">PyFloat_CheckExact</tt><big>(</big><a class="reference internal" href="structures.html#PyObject" title="PyObject">PyObject</a><em> *p</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#PyFloat_CheckExact" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return true if its argument is a <a class="reference internal" href="#PyFloatObject" title="PyFloatObject"><tt class="xref c c-type docutils literal"><span class="pre">PyFloatObject</span></tt></a>, but not a subtype of
<a class="reference internal" href="#PyFloatObject" title="PyFloatObject"><tt class="xref c c-type docutils literal"><span class="pre">PyFloatObject</span></tt></a>.</p>
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<dt id="PyFloat_FromString">
<a class="reference internal" href="structures.html#PyObject" title="PyObject">PyObject</a>* <tt class="descname">PyFloat_FromString</tt><big>(</big><a class="reference internal" href="structures.html#PyObject" title="PyObject">PyObject</a><em> *str</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#PyFloat_FromString" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><em class="refcount">Return value: New reference.</em><p>Create a <a class="reference internal" href="#PyFloatObject" title="PyFloatObject"><tt class="xref c c-type docutils literal"><span class="pre">PyFloatObject</span></tt></a> object based on the string value in <em>str</em>, or
<em>NULL</em> on failure.</p>
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<dt id="PyFloat_FromDouble">
<a class="reference internal" href="structures.html#PyObject" title="PyObject">PyObject</a>* <tt class="descname">PyFloat_FromDouble</tt><big>(</big>double<em> v</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#PyFloat_FromDouble" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><em class="refcount">Return value: New reference.</em><p>Create a <a class="reference internal" href="#PyFloatObject" title="PyFloatObject"><tt class="xref c c-type docutils literal"><span class="pre">PyFloatObject</span></tt></a> object from <em>v</em>, or <em>NULL</em> on failure.</p>
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<dt id="PyFloat_AsDouble">
double <tt class="descname">PyFloat_AsDouble</tt><big>(</big><a class="reference internal" href="structures.html#PyObject" title="PyObject">PyObject</a><em> *pyfloat</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#PyFloat_AsDouble" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return a C <tt class="xref c c-type docutils literal"><span class="pre">double</span></tt> representation of the contents of <em>pyfloat</em>. If
<em>pyfloat</em> is not a Python floating point object but has a <a class="reference internal" href="../reference/datamodel.html#object.__float__" title="object.__float__"><tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">__float__()</span></tt></a>
method, this method will first be called to convert <em>pyfloat</em> into a float.</p>
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<dt id="PyFloat_AS_DOUBLE">
double <tt class="descname">PyFloat_AS_DOUBLE</tt><big>(</big><a class="reference internal" href="structures.html#PyObject" title="PyObject">PyObject</a><em> *pyfloat</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#PyFloat_AS_DOUBLE" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return a C <tt class="xref c c-type docutils literal"><span class="pre">double</span></tt> representation of the contents of <em>pyfloat</em>, but
without error checking.</p>
</dd></dl>
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<dt id="PyFloat_GetInfo">
<a class="reference internal" href="structures.html#PyObject" title="PyObject">PyObject</a>* <tt class="descname">PyFloat_GetInfo</tt><big>(</big>void<big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#PyFloat_GetInfo" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return a structseq instance which contains information about the
precision, minimum and maximum values of a float. It’s a thin wrapper
around the header file <tt class="file docutils literal"><span class="pre">float.h</span></tt>.</p>
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<dt id="PyFloat_GetMax">
double <tt class="descname">PyFloat_GetMax</tt><big>(</big><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#PyFloat_GetMax" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return the maximum representable finite float <em>DBL_MAX</em> as C <tt class="xref c c-type docutils literal"><span class="pre">double</span></tt>.</p>
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double <tt class="descname">PyFloat_GetMin</tt><big>(</big><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#PyFloat_GetMin" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return the minimum normalized positive float <em>DBL_MIN</em> as C <tt class="xref c c-type docutils literal"><span class="pre">double</span></tt>.</p>
</dd></dl>
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<dt id="PyFloat_ClearFreeList">
int <tt class="descname">PyFloat_ClearFreeList</tt><big>(</big><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#PyFloat_ClearFreeList" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Clear the float free list. Return the number of items that could not
be freed.</p>
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