Dividing integers...Convert to float first?

[Thomas Ploch]

redefined.horizons at gmail.com schrieb:
> I'm still pretty new to Python. I'm writing a function that accepts
> thre integers as arguments. I need to divide the first integer by te
> second integer, and get a float as a result. I don't want the caller of
> the function to have to pass floats instead of integers. How do I
> convert the arguments passed to the function into floats before I do
> the division? Is this necessary, or is their a better way?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Scott Huey
> 

Yes, it is necessary. If you divide two integers, the result will be an
integer.

 >>> 1/2
 0

You need the function float() -> float because a division between
integers and floats will have floats as their results

 >>> float(1)/2
 0.5