Gregory Piñero wrote: > On 14 Feb 2006 06:44:02 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >>5./2.=2.5 is floating point math, with all the round off errors that >>incorporates. > > Thanks Curtis, I never knew that trick. I guess for variables do have > true division you have to make them floats? e.g. > float(var1)/float(var2)? Or do you know a less typing approach for > that?
Google "python true division" -> I'm feeling lucky: http://www.python.org/doc/2.2.3/whatsnew/node7.html From the web page: """ * By including a from __future__ import division in a module(*), the / operator will be changed to return the result of true division, so 1/2 is 0.5. Without the __future__ statement, / still means classic division. The default meaning of / will not change until Python 3.0. """ *As the first non-docstring/non-comment line. Note that that's for a module -- the interactive interpreter won't respond the same way to the "from __future__ import" statement. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
