Mark Dickinson added the comment: See also http://docs.python.org/2/faq/programming.html#why-does-22-10-return-3
BTW, integer division does not use float division internally. That would fail for integers too large to be exactly representable as floats. The implementation can be seen in Objects/intobject.c and Objects/longobject.c if you're interested. ---------- nosy: +mark.dickinson _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19574> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
