Chris Angelico wrote:
Truncating vs true is not the same as int vs float. If you mean to explicitly request float division, you call float() on one or both arguments. You're being explicit about something different.
If you know you're dealing with either ints or floats, which is true in the vast majority of cases, then you know that / will always perform float division. As for why int/int should yield float and not some other type, float is alreay special -- it's built-in and has syntactic support in the form of literals. It's the most obvious choice. If a version of Python were ever to exist in which floating-point literals produced Decimals instead of floats, then int/int would produce a Decimal. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
