[Tutor] Division doesn't work

[Kent Johnson]

Johan Geldenhuys wrote:
> Hi all,
>  
> In my script I want to convert 14105 bytes to kilobytes and and this is 
> what I do:
>  
>> >> s = 14105
>> >> print '%0.2f' % (s/1024)
> 13.00 
>  
> This not correct and I don't know why. The answer is 13.77.
>  
> Any pointers please that would help my in the right direction?

As well as the solutions Geofram has given, you can change the behaviour 
of addition like this:

In [2]: from __future__ import division

In [3]: 14105/1024
Out[3]: 13.7744140625

Then the old-style integer division is done with //:
In [4]: 14105//1024
Out[4]: 13

More info here:
http://www.python.org/doc/2.2.3/whatsnew/node7.html

Kent