1/2 evaluates to 0
Paul Rudin
paul.nospam at rudin.co.uk
Wed Oct 12 06:28:51 EDT 2011
Laurent Claessens <moky.math at gmail.com> writes:
> Hi all
>>> This is well known :
>>>>> 1/2
> 0
>> This is because the division is an "integer division".
>> My question is : how can I evaluate 1/2 to 0.5 ? Is there some non
> integer division operator ?
> Up to now I workarounded writing float(1)/2. Is there an other way ?
from __future__ import division
Or use operator.truediv
Or use python 3.
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