<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Mr Gerard Kelly <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:s4027340@student.uq.edu.au">s4027340@student.uq.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Thanks very much<br>
<br>
I've noticed that the eval() function gives an integer, so eval("3/2")<br>
gives back 1. float(eval("3/2")) doesn't seem to work, any way to get a<br>
floating point number back with eval()?<br>
<br>
I know you can just do ("3./2."), but is there any way to do it with<br>
just ("3/2")?<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>at the top of your script you can write:</div><div><br></div><div>from __future__ import division</div><div><br></div><div>now</div><div><br></div><div>>>> eval("4/3")</div>
<div>1.33333</div><div><br></div><div>You can read up on it here if you are interested..</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0238/">http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0238/</a><br></div><div>
<br></div><div>Cheers</div>