On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:57:15 +1100, Alasdair wrote: > Thanks, all - you've been most helpful. By the way, what does // do? I > haven't yet run down its definition in the manual.
// is integer division. >>> 10//5 2 >>> 11//5 2 In Python 2.5 and older, / means integer division, unless you do from __future__ import division in which case / is true division, that is: >>> 10/5 2 >>> 11/5 2.5 In Python 3.x, / will always be true division, and you won't need the import. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
