From: Mark Sparshatt <msparshatt@...>
Date: 2004-06-05T19:03:03+09:00
Subject: Re: [RCR] Floating point division operator /. (or fdiv method)

Michael Neumann wrote:

>>This is one area where (IMHO) Python took the right choice.  (I can't 
>>believe I said that).
>>    
>>
>
>Well, I believed that's how Python works as well. But in Python (2.3):
>
>  >>> 1 / 2
>  0
>
>  >>> 1 // 2
>  0
>
>  >>> 1.0 // 2
>  0.0
>
>  >>> 1.0 / 2
>  0.5
>
>  >>> 1 / 2.0
>  0.5
>
>So they have the same "problem" as we in Ruby. But AFAIK, they can
>better control the impacts than Ruby can (limited to module scope?).
>  
>
However GvR has decided to fix the problem in the way you suggest, by 
making // mean integer division and for / to mean float division.

Try this

 >>> 1/2
0
 >>> from __future__ import division
 >>> 1/2
0.5
 >>> 1//2
0

That's using version 2.3.3

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Mark Sparshatt