[issue17821] Different division results with / and // operators with large numbers

New submission from Philippe Rouquier: Hi, the following statement yields different results in python2 and python3: 284397269195572115652769428988866694680//17 - int(284397269195572115652769428988866694680/17) In python3 it yields: 309657313492949847071 In python2 it yields: OL Python2's

[issue17821] Different division results with / and // operators with large numbers

Philippe Rouquier added the comment: Does your comment mean that this is bug should be closed as notabug since anyone wanting to avoid such rounding error should use // operator? -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org