[Tutor] Division doesn't work

Danny Yoo dyoo at hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu
Thu Jan 18 15:07:01 CET 2007



On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Johan Geldenhuys wrote:

> Thanks at lot. Something as simple as that...

No, don't feel bad about it: integer division is a bad "gotcha!" in 
Python.  Integer division is known to be suprising, and it'll eventually 
be replaced by true division in Python 3:

     http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0238/

Till then, just tread more careful when using division.  (But you knew 
division was wacky anyway... *grin*)


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