Victor Eijkhout wrote: > I have two long ints, both too long to convert to float, but their ratio > is something reasonable. How can I compute that? The obvious "(1.*x)/y" > does not work.
>>> import fractions >>> x = 12345 * 10**1000 >>> y = 765 * 10**1000 >>> float(x) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> OverflowError: long int too large to convert to float >>> fractions.Fraction(x, y) Fraction(823, 51) >>> float(_) 16.137254901960784 Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
