[Tutor] eval and floating point

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009, jadrifter wrote:
>On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 12:19 +1000, Mr Gerard Kelly 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")?
>
>That's not the eval function returning that integer so much as it is
>Python itself.  You might try:
>eval ("1.0 * 3/2")

Make either the numerator or denominator floating point.

eval ('3.0/2')

Python does the Right Thing(tm) when dividing two integers,
returning an integer result.

Bill
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