Norman Silverstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Incidentally, I am only just starting to learn about functions and have > not come across the module 're'. Also why is it (lo+hi)//2 and not > (lo+hi)/2.
Using // ensures truncation, which is what you want. A single / may mean truncating division in the default legacy/compatibility mode, but with the new division behavior (which one day will become standard) it means true division, so that for example 1/2 means 0.5 -- better get used to the new behavior ASAP (which is why you can ask for new division behavior with -Qnew on Python's commandline or 'from __future__ import division' at the top of your module -- to help you get used to it). Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
