Thanks to all who helped. As was previously pointed out, many other languages use truncation rather than rounding for // division.
Getting the behavior you want may be as easy as replacing // with the int() function.... >>> x = 9 ; y = 2 >>> x // y, -x // y, (-x) // y (4, -5, -5) >>> int(x / y), -int(x / y), int(-x / y) (4, -4, -4) Hope that helps. Chris -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
