Name: Anonymous 2007-12-18 12:14
Floor division (X // Y), new in 2.2, always truncates fractional remainders. Classic division (X / Y) truncates integer division results in 2.2 but will be changed to true division (always keeping remainders) in 3.0. In 2.2, use from _ _future_ _ import true_division to make the / operator return true division result (e.g., 1/2 is 0.5).