Oh Dear

[Rainer Deyke]

Walter Bright wrote:
> If Python always used floor division, why did it add a // operator that
> does exactly the same thing as / ?

Starting with Python 3.0, 'a / b' returns a float even when both
operands are integers.  'a // b' performs floor division, even if both
operands are floats.  Python now has two division operators, neither of
which has C-style truncation (i.e. round toward zero).

This is explained further in the actual PEP 238 text:
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0238/


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