[Tutor] ZeroDivisionError: float division

[Alan Gauld]

"pierre cutellic" <pierre.cutellic at gmail.com> wrote

> here is a a piece of code i can't debug:
>
> kx = (neighbor[1]+agent[1])/(dx-(neighbor[1]+agent[1]))
>
> in this line, 'neighbor[1]' and 'agent[1]' are both integers and 
> 'dx' is a
> float so it gives me the following error: 'ZeroDivisionError: float
> division'.

So have you checked that the divisor is not zero?

ie that (dx-(neighbor[1]+agent[1]) is not zero.

That's normally the cause of a ZeroDivisionError.
Without a bit more code or some debug output we
can't really say much more.


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