Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment: It's not a bug: you're seeing Python's rules for integer division, which do indeed differ from those of (some) other languages when either the divisor or the dividend is negative. For integers x and y, in Python 2.x, x / y gives the floor of the exact quotient.
>>> -32 / 5 -7 >>> 32 / -5 -7 In Python 3.x, the '/' operator does 'true division', giving you (a floating-point approximation to) the true result: >>> -32 / 5 -6.4 >>> 32 / -5 -6.4 You can also get this behaviour in Python 2.x if you start your script with 'from __future__ import division'. See the documentation at: http://docs.python.org/reference/expressions.html#binary-arithmetic-operations for more. ---------- nosy: +mark.dickinson resolution: -> invalid status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10346> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
