> I would recommend using "from __future__ import division" at the top of your > script, so division behaves properly (3/2 == 1.5 instead of 1). This way you > don't have to make sure you write 3.0/2 everywhere you need to divide > something. > There's something to be said for your approach as well though, since someone > reading your code would know what to expect when seeing 3.0/2, without caring > whether "from __future__ import division" is used. But I consider the integer > division in Python improper behavior that is fixed by this statement. so in Python 3000 there's no more integer division? I hope this is not the case. Sometimes it's the desired action, like when you repeatedly divide/mod a variable.
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