On Sat, 19 Apr 2014 19:37:31 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 7:25 PM, Ian Kelly ian.g.ke...@gmail.com
wrote:
The change from / denoting classic
division to true division really only affects the case where both
operands are integers, so far as I'm aware. If you want to
Steven D'Aprano writes:
It doesn't round, it truncates.
[steve@ando ~]$ python2.7 -c print round(799.0/100)
8.0
[steve@ando ~]$ python2.7 -c print 799/100
7
Seems it floors rather than truncates:
$ python2.7 -c from math import trunc;print trunc(799./-100)
-7
$ python2.7 -c from math
On Sun, 20 Apr 2014 15:38:03 +0300, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
Steven D'Aprano writes:
It doesn't round, it truncates.
[steve@ando ~]$ python2.7 -c print round(799.0/100) 8.0
[steve@ando ~]$ python2.7 -c print 799/100 7
Seems it floors rather than truncates:
$ python2.7 -c from math
On Sat, 19 Apr 2014 19:37:31 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
In Python 3, you have to say Oh but I want my integer division to
result in an integer:
I don't see why that's such a big hardship.
There are clear advantages to having an explicit way to
request non-floor division. Whatever way is
