Ah, I didn't know about importing division from __future__, so I may use this, thanks for letting me know!
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Masklinn <maskl...@masklinn.net> wrote: > On 2011-06-28, at 15:31 , Tom Evans wrote: > > > > Bit OT, but I'll bite (doesn't really relate to Django). Dividing two > > ints ALWAYS returns an int. > Unless you've switched to Python 3, or imported division from __future__ in > which case true division is the default, and integer division is bumped to > '//'. > > > Calling math.ceil() ALWAYS returns a > > float. I think you were expecting that python would automagically > > store the remainder somewhere so that math.ceil() has something to > > operate on. It doesn't do that! > Or he was expecting that Python uses true division always (a default the > core team seems to agree with since they changed it in 3.0) > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
