[Microbit-Python] 5/2

[Michael]

On 10 December 2016 at 11:42, Sven Turnau via Microbit <microbit at python.org>
wrote:

> In python IDE
>

Which python IDE do you mean?

It sounds like the python IDE you're using is python 2 based. (eg python
2.7)

Micropython is an implementation of python 3.

There are slight differences between python 2 and python 3.

> I have 5/2 result is 2 not 2.5 as in micropython??
> Is it an BUG??

No, it's an example of one difference between python 2 and python 3.

Python 2 uses the rule *"5 is an integer, 2 is an integer, so we'll have
the result as an integer"* (Which since 5 is odd, it chops off the decimal
part)

Python 3 uses the rule *"Python 2 had a confusing result, so let's give a
result that people expect from normal maths instead"* :-)

Hope that helps,


Michael.
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