On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Frank Millman <fr...@chagford.com> wrote: > If you are using python2, an integer divided by an integer always returns an > integer - > >>>> 10/3 > 3 > > It was changed in python3 to return a float - > >>>> 10/3 > 3.3333333333333335 > > You can reproduce the python3 behaviour in python2 by adding a 'future' > directive - > >>>> from __future__ import division >>>> 10/3 > 3.3333333333333335 >
Conversely, you can get an integer result by using floor division: >>> 10//3 3 ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
