Very basic question

[Sion Arrowsmith]

Sengly  <Sengly.Heng at gmail.com> wrote:
>I would like to calculate a string expression to a float. For example,
>I have ('12/5') and I want 2.4 as a result. I tried to use eval but it
>only gives me 2 instead of 2.5

py> from __future__ import division
py> print eval('12/5')
2.4
py> print eval('12//5')
2

Or switch to 3.0 which gives you this behaviour without the __future__
import.

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