[Tutor] from __future__ import division

[Alan Gauld]

"Steve Willoughby" <steve at alchemy.com> wrote


> normal division x/y works just as expected, with one caveat: 
> remember
> that if you divide two *integer* values, you will get an *integer*
> division operation yielding an *integer* result.  So:

It's worth pointing out that although beginners tend to find this
behaviour odd it is actually very useful for many types of
programming problem(*). That's why the future mechanism includes
a new operator to do the older style integer division

(*)Some examples include manipulating indices into lists,
selecting from limited ranges, dealing with cyclic lists etc.


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