On Feb 27, 4:05 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I have the following functions, but ' dx = abs(i2 - i1)/min(i2, > i1)' always return 0, can you please tell me how can i convert it from > an integer to float? > > def compareValue(n1, n2): > i1 = int(n1) > i2 = int(n2) > > dx = abs(i2 - i1)/min(i2, i1) > print dx > return dx < 0.05
dx = float(abs(i2 -i1))/min(i2, i1) Or you could just put "from __future__ import division" at the top of your file. see http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0238/ for details. -Matt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
