
I have 2 variables, say var1=10,var2=100. To divide I do either divide(float(var1),float(var2)) or simply float(var1)/float(var2). I'm just wondering if there's a smarter way of doing this?

On 04/04/2011 01:49 PM, Alex Ter-Sarkissov wrote:
I have 2 variables, say var1=10,var2=100. To divide I do either divide(float(var1),float(var2)) or simply float(var1)/float(var2). I'm just wondering if there's a smarter way of doing this?
from __future__ import division var1 = 10 var2 = 100 print var1/var2 0.1
HTH, Pearu

var1 = 10 var2 = 100 import numpy as np np.divide(var1,var2) 0 np.divide(10,100 * 1.) 0.10000000000000001 var1/var2 0 var1*1./var2 0.1
On 04/04/2011, at 8:49 PM, Alex Ter-Sarkissov wrote:
I have 2 variables, say var1=10,var2=100. To divide I do either divide(float(var1),float(var2)) or simply float(var1)/float(var2). I'm just wondering if there's a smarter way of doing this? _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
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On 4/4/2011 6:49 AM, Alex Ter-Sarkissov wrote:
divide(float(var1),float(var2))
http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.true_divide.html hth, Alan Isaac
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