[Tutor] Simple variable type question

[Luke Paireepinart]

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com>wrote:

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> "Antonio de la Fuente" <toni at muybien.org> wrote
>
>> the doctest for the slope function failed, because is expecting a
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>> floating point value and not an integer:
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> So convert it to a float.
>
> Or just
>     return float(y2-y1/x2-x1)
>
> Alan why are you suggesting this, surely this will cause the decimal values
to be truncated?  Or does this somehow work differently in Python 3?
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