"Andre Engels" <andreeng...@gmail.com> wrote
eval("float(3/2)")
That still does not work, because the 'float' comes after the
division. 3/2 equals 1, so float(3/2) equals 1.0. To make it work,
you'll have to put the float inside the division:
eval("float(3)/2")
Ahem! Quite. That was what I actually intended to post!
But having seen the other posts suggesting using future
I had a rethink.
I don't think either float() or the "3.0" approach will help the
OP because I suspect he is trying to eval a string stored
in a variable. In that case the "import future" trick is probably
the only solution that will work, short of parsing the string and
doing the division without using eval...
HTH,
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Alan Gauld
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