On Sun, 17 Sep 2017 02:52 am, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> Yes -- that would give me fits if I were using Python3 currently... > Since so many of the languages I've learned over the past years use the > concept integer / integer => integer_result That would be C, and C derived languages, perhaps? Pascal uses integer / integer => float (except Pascal calls it "Real"). If you want integer division, use "div". I think so did Algol. > Come to think of it -- wasn't there a post from someone (seems to > expired or been filtered from my client) asking for help with some sorting > program... I'm pretty sure the partitioning logic would croak on Python3 > due to floating point results in the slice indices: > > pA = part[:n/2] > pB = part[n/2:] If you want integer division, you have to use integer division :-) pA = part[:n//2] -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
