Chris Angelico wrote:
Earlier it was said that having both / and // lets you explicitly choose whether you want a float result or an int by picking an operator. I'm saying that's not so; the operator and the type aren't quite orthogonal, but close to.
I don't think I said that, or if I did I was using sloppy language. As someone pointed out a couple of posts ago, it's not really about types, it's about selecting which *operation* you want to perform. Ordinary division and floor division are very different operations, and you want to be sure you get the right one. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
