[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > I'm still pretty new to Python. I'm writing a function that accepts > thre integers as arguments. I need to divide the first integer by te > second integer, and get a float as a result. I don't want the caller of > the function to have to pass floats instead of integers. How do I > convert the arguments passed to the function into floats before I do > the division? Is this necessary, or is their a better way? > > Thanks, > > Scott Huey >
Yes, it is necessary. If you divide two integers, the result will be an integer. >>> 1/2 0 You need the function float() -> float because a division between integers and floats will have floats as their results >>> float(1)/2 0.5 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
