[Tutor] Division operation

[Alan Gauld]

> You can include the following in your program (I often do) if you 
> want
> division to operate the way you expect:
>
>>>> from __future__ import division
>

Or you can do an explicit float conversion inside your function
if you don't want the import effect.

def f(x,y):
   returm float(x)/y

This issue is discussed in the Simple Sequences topic
of my tutor.

HTH,

-- 
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
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