Re: [Tutor] Division operation

2006-05-16 Thread Alan Gauld
> You can include the following in your program (I often do) if you > want > division to operate the way you expect: > from __future__ import division > Or you can do an explicit float conversion inside your function if you don't want the import effect. def f(x,y): returm float(x)/y Thi

Re: [Tutor] Division operation

2006-05-16 Thread Terry Carroll
On Tue, 16 May 2006, Miguel Estrada wrote: > def function(): > x = int(raw_input("Enter value of x: ")) > y = int(raw_input("Enter value of y: ")) > z = x / y > print "The value of z is", z, "unit of measurement" > > > Now, say, user input: > > x = 200 > y = 1000 > > The value

[Tutor] Division operation

2006-05-16 Thread Miguel Estrada
Hi there, I'm new to Python and programming in general. This is the function I am writing: def function(): x = int(raw_input("Enter value of x: ")) y = int(raw_input("Enter value of y: ")) z = x / y print "The value of z is", z, "unit of measurement" Now, say, user input: x =