[Python Wpg] Fwd: Cannot figure out this ZeroDivisionError exception

[Kevin Veroneau]

Thank you all for your help.  I do believe that is what is causing the
problem.  It runs now without throwing the exception.

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:30 PM, Mike pfaiffer <high.res.mike at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 11-03-11 7:22 PM, Chris Macksey wrote:
>
>> On 11 March 2011 18:38, Mike pfaiffer<high.res.mike at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>
>>>        Just a thought. Would scale = 1/300 not produce 0 instead of the
>>> floating point 0.00333? It looks like you may have a data type conversion
>>> issue. If the numerator is an integer then the result of the division
>>> will
>>> be an integer. I was caught by this a couple of times (and will no doubt
>>> be
>>> caught by it again in the future).
>>>
>>>                                Later
>>>                                Mike
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Yes, it would, depending on your Python version - unless you either use
>> from
>> __future__ import division  to get the new division semantics, or use
>> 1.0/300 (or equivalent) to force it to be a float.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Chris.
>>
>
>        That's the way it worked out on my Mac. I couldn't test it on my
> Linux box because of hardware issues.
>
>                                Later
>                                Mike
>
>
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