On Apr 20, 2014 8:01 PM, "Gregory Ewing" <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > > Ian Kelly wrote: > >> def average(values): >> return sum(values) / len(values) >> >> This works for decimals, it works for fractions, it works for complex numbers, it works for numpy types, and in Python 3 it works for ints. > > > That depends on what you mean by "works". I would actually > find it rather disturbing if an average() function implicitly > used floor division when given all ints.
The code above never uses floor division in Python 3. Therefore it "works".
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