[omaha] Tutorial: integer division

[Jay Hannah]

This surprised me:

http://docs.python.org/tut/node5.html

 >>> # Integer division returns the floor:
... 7/3
2

So I tried my own:

 >>> x = 7
 >>> y = 3
 >>> x / y
2

This strikes me as very counter-intuitive... How do you avoid getting  
burned by this?

Forcing a decimal point into the mix does what I expect:

 >>> x = 7.0
 >>> y = 3
 >>> x / y
2.3333333333333335

But how do I systematically enforce floating point division into my  
applications?

Thanks,

j
didn't even mention Perl. Aren't you proud of me? -grin-