Jonathan Smith schrieb: > Thomas Ploch wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: >>> I'm still pretty new to Python. I'm writing a function that accepts >>> thre integers as arguments. I need to divide the first integer by te >>> second integer, and get a float as a result. I don't want the caller of >>> the function to have to pass floats instead of integers. How do I >>> convert the arguments passed to the function into floats before I do >>> the division? Is this necessary, or is their a better way? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Scott Huey >>> >> >> Yes, it is necessary. If you divide two integers, the result will be an >> integer. >> >> >>> 1/2 >> 0 >> >> You need the function float() -> float because a division between >> integers and floats will have floats as their results >> >> >>> float(1)/2 >> 0.5 > > >>>> from __future__ import division >>>> 1/2 > 0.5 > > -smithj >
aahh, I have been tought so many things about python that are actually so old, that I am starting to feel embarrassed. That brings me to the point, that learning a language X at university always brings you to a point where you know (almost) everything, but in reality know nothing because course material is too old... Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
