floating point division -- question

[Gerhard Häring]

William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> Some time ago, there was thread discussing adding a floating point division
> operator, like //.  Doing 'a//b' is certainly easier than doing 'a/float(b)',
> and it doesn't break any existing codes.  Has there been any interest from
> the Gods of Python?

Python 2.2.2 (#37, Oct 14 2002, 17:02:34) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
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>>> from __future__ import division
>>> 3 / 5
0.59999999999999998
>>> 3 // 5
0

It's been there since the original Python 2.2 release. See
http://www.python.org/doc/current/whatsnew/node7.html for details.
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