Ticket #4 (new defect)

Opened 1 year ago

Truncating division and Guido van Rossum's Python 3000 Google Video

Reported by: emuller Assigned to: somebody
Priority: major Milestone:
Component: component1 Version:
Keywords: Cc:

Description

Just watching Guido van Rossum's Talk on Python 3000 at Google Video ...

Did you ever notice this: 

3/4 = 0

3.0/4 = 0.75

3//4 = 0

3.0//4 = 0.0

This behavior I find better: 

from __future__ import division

3/4 = 0.75

3//4 = 0

3.0/4 = 0.75

3.0//4 = 0.0

I didn't know '//' was unambiguous truncating division ... nice. Of course '%' returns the remainder.