Excuse me please, but is there any sort of workaround yet to this? It
is preventing me from running python code that expects 2/3=0.6666...
in notebook mode...

Thank you,
Mats

On Jun 17, 12:59 pm, Mats <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It seems that "from __future__ import division" works in console mode,
> but does not work in notebook mode.
> Running the commands quoted below will yield the expected results in
> the console mode (.6666...), but 2/3 will equal 0 in notebook mode.
>
> Sincerely,
> Mats
>
> On Jun 15, 1:36 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Nick Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > On 15-Jun-08, at 6:45 AM,Matswrote:
>
> > >> Hello,
>
> > >> I've done Integer=int, but however it seems that after I do "from
> > >> __future__ import division", I still get 2/3=1.
>
> > > Can you give an example?
>
> > The original poster is claiming that the following doesn't work:
>
> > D-69-91-137-77:~ was$ sage
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > | SAGE Version 3.0.2, Release Date: 2008-05-24                       |
> > | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information.        |
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> > sage: from __future__ import division
> > sage: 2/3
> > 2/3
> > sage: Integer = int
> > sage: 2/3
> > 0.66666666666666663
>
> > Actually it does, so .... ?
>
> > >> This does not occur in
> > >> the python interpreter; I get .666666... as I should.
>
> > > If you mean that you find
>
> > > sage: 2/3
> > > .66666
>
> > > then something is very strange.  By default, the sage interpreter
> > > preparses '2/3' to 'Integer(2)/Integer(3)' which evaluates to a
> > > Rational, namely 2/3.  So you should get
>
> > > sage: 2/3
> > > 2/3
>
> > > You can turn off the preparser -- preparse? might give you useful
> > > information and examples.
>
> > > Examples of what you want to do would be useful.
> > > Nick
>
> > --
> > William Stein
> > Associate Professor of Mathematics
> > University of Washingtonhttp://wstein.org
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