import sys def f(x): return x**3 + x -1 def bisection(a,b,tol): c = (a+b)/2.0 while (b-a)/2.0 > tol: if f(c) == 0: return c elif f(a)*f(c) < 0: b = c else : a = c c = (a+b)/2.0 return c def main(argv): if (len(sys.argv) != 4): sys.exit('Usage: bisection.py ') print 'The root is: ', print bisection(int(sys.argv[1]),int(sys.argv[2]),float(sys.argv[3])) if __name__ == "__main__": main(sys.argv[1:])