On Feb 8, 11:08 pm, Paul Rudin <[email protected]> wrote: > It works because 0 tests false and because integer division yields > integers... eventually you'll get something like 1/10 giving 0. > > It's not necessarily a good thing to rely on. For example if you try it > after "from __future__ import division" - or in python 3 - you'll get a > float as the result of the division and it won't test False.
What operator should I use if I want integer division? Ada and Pascal used "div" if I recall rightly. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
