[Tutor] eval and floating point

[Jervis Whitley]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Mr Gerard Kelly <s4027340 at student.uq.edu.au
> wrote:

> Thanks very much
>
> I've noticed that the eval() function gives an integer, so eval("3/2")
> gives back 1. float(eval("3/2")) doesn't seem to work, any way to get a
> floating point number back with eval()?
>
> I know you can just do ("3./2."), but is there any way to do it with
> just ("3/2")?
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Hi,

at the top of your script you can write:

from __future__ import division

now

>>> eval("4/3")
1.33333

You can read up on it here if you are interested..

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

Cheers
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