<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > For a long time,, There has been a discussion of trueFor division > versus integer division in Python.
The discussion and the decision to use // and / were years ago. > I myslef prefer that / be used for integer division since almost > always, I want the result of the > division be truncated to integer. So use // > However, today I reviewed the method to be used in Python to get true > division, and this gave > me an idea how true division could be implemented without interferring > with the use of > / for integer division. > Use / for integer division > single slash is the operator for integer division. > Use ./ for true division. > period slash is the operator for true division. Proposing to use / and ./ instead of // and / is a waste of time. Really Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
