On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 2:49 PM, francesco <cerutti.francesco...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm pretty new in Python language. I have a problem with numbers: it > seems python doesn't know any more how to count! > I get only the down rounded integer > 20/8 = 2 > 8/3=2 > I probably changed some option to round the numbers, but I don't > remember how. > Is there a way to reset the number of digits to default? > Thanks in advance
Use floats instead of integers: Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Apr 16 2010, 13:57:41) [GCC 4.4.3] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> 20/8 2 >>> 20.0/8 2.5 or use Python3: Python 3.2a1 (r32a1:83318, Aug 13 2010, 22:32:03) [GCC 4.4.3] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> 20/8 2.5 >>> 20.0/8 2.5 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list