Phew -- thanks, Ziyad. That did the trick all right. In my frustration to figure out the problem, I just began explicitly type-casting as many variables as I could, and missed the fact that I had done the same to this as well.
Thanks again, Dan On 9-Jun-05, at 7:32 PM, ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 18:16 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> I'm in the process of learning Python, and need some help deciphering >> the reason why the following code doesn't work: > <snip> >> int(num) = int(num) / 2 # this is integer division, so we >> truncate the decimal part > Here's your problem! "int(num)" will try to interpret "num" as an > integer and return that (if possible) as an "int" object, but you're > trying to assign it to the value of "int(num)/2" which doesn't make > sense! > > What you want, probably, is: > num = int(num) / 2 > > Here, "num" will be assigned the value (object actually) of the > resulting of "int(num)/2" which will be an object of type "int". > > Ziyad. > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
