"Steve Willoughby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> normal division x/y works just as expected, with one caveat: > remember > that if you divide two *integer* values, you will get an *integer* > division operation yielding an *integer* result. So: It's worth pointing out that although beginners tend to find this behaviour odd it is actually very useful for many types of programming problem(*). That's why the future mechanism includes a new operator to do the older style integer division (*)Some examples include manipulating indices into lists, selecting from limited ranges, dealing with cyclic lists etc. -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
