[Tutor] Can't figure out syntax error

[ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY]

On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 18:16 -0600, as.20.schellenberg at spamgourmet.com
wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm in the process of learning Python, and need some help deciphering 
> the reason why the following code doesn't work:
<snip>
>     int(num) = int(num) / 2  # this is integer division, so we truncate the decimal part
Here's your problem!  "int(num)" will try to interpret "num" as an
integer and return that (if possible) as an "int" object, but you're
trying to assign it to the value of "int(num)/2" which doesn't make
sense!

What you want, probably, is:
	num = int(num) / 2

Here, "num" will be assigned the value (object actually) of the
resulting of "int(num)/2" which will be an object of type "int".

Ziyad.