On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> I'd rather have to explicitly request floating-point division; > > > When you write / in Python 3, you *are* explicitly requesting > floating-point division. > > Similarly, when you write // you're explicitly requesting > integer division. > > I don't see the problem. You write whatever you mean and it > does what you tell it to do.
Truncating vs true is not the same as int vs float. If you mean to explicitly request float division, you call float() on one or both arguments. You're being explicit about something different. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
