Question about typing: ints/floats

[Zeeshan Quireshi]

On Mar 3, 6:45 pm, Wells <thewellsoli... at gmail.com> wrote:
> This seems sort of odd to me:
>
> >>> a = 1
> >>> a += 1.202
> >>> a
>
> 2.202
>
> Indicates that 'a' was an int that was implicitly casted to a float.
> But:
>
> >>> a = 1
> >>> b = 3
> >>> a / b
>
> 0
>
> This does not implicitly do the casting, it treats 'a' and 'b' as
> integers, and the result as well. Changing 'b' to 3.0 will yield a
> float as a result (0.33333333333333331)
>
> Is there some way to explain the consistency here? Does python
> implicitly change the casting when you add variables of a different
> numeric type?
>
> Anyway, just  curiosity more than anything else. Thanks!

Python, like most other languages performs only integer division when
both the operands are ints. So only if one of the types is a flot or
you explicitly cast your expression to be a double, then the value
will be a fraction. otherwise you will the quotient.