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| author | Srinivas Gorur-Shandilya <github@srinivas.gs> | 2016-10-20 09:57:55 -0400 |
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| committer | ven <vendethiel@hotmail.fr> | 2016-10-20 15:57:55 +0200 |
| commit | 8905c0c5bc7f6a7947a4fd0bcef8cf085ed08366 (patch) | |
| tree | 2a6a1b9310b462e2cb365f36e66dd3f7fb6f1c61 | |
| parent | 0c6b3e73374064d3e2c5a149608c4213ca2068d8 (diff) | |
[python3] updated docs on division for python3 (#2473)
* updated docs on division for python3
prev. docs were confusing, did not show how to actually divide.
* modified language about python division
* fixed grammar
| -rw-r--r-- | python3.html.markdown | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/python3.html.markdown b/python3.html.markdown index 341f0a39..43e90299 100644 --- a/python3.html.markdown +++ b/python3.html.markdown @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Note: This article applies to Python 3 specifically. Check out [here](http://lea 8 - 1 # => 7 10 * 2 # => 20 -# Except division which returns floats, real numbers, by default +# Except division which defaults to rounding down 35 / 5 # => 7.0 # Result of integer division truncated down both for positive and negative. @@ -47,8 +47,12 @@ Note: This article applies to Python 3 specifically. Check out [here](http://lea -5 // 3 # => -2 -5.0 // 3.0 # => -2.0 -# When you use a float, results are floats -3 * 2.0 # => 6.0 +# When one of the inputs is a float, result is a float +10.0 / 3 # => 3.3333333333333335 + +# to force this behavior on integers, use +from __future__ import division +10 / 3 # => 3.3333333333333335 # Modulo operation 7 % 3 # => 1 |