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authorMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2009-06-28 21:19:18 (GMT)
committerMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2009-06-28 21:19:18 (GMT)
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Issue #6354 continued: reword confusing tutorial note on the (no-longer
existing) difference between str(8/5) and repr(8/5).
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@@ -60,16 +60,9 @@ operators ``+``, ``-``, ``*`` and ``/`` work just like in most other languages
Note: You might not see exactly the same result; floating point results can
differ from one machine to another. We will say more later about controlling
-the appearance of floating point output; what we see here is the most
-informative display but not as easy to read as we would get with::
-
- >>> print(8/5)
- 1.6
-
-For clarity in this tutorial we will show the simpler floating point output
-unless we are specifically discussing output formatting, and explain later
-why these two ways of displaying floating point data come to be different.
-See :ref:`tut-fp-issues` for a full discussion.
+the appearance of floating point output. See also :ref:`tut-fp-issues` for a
+full discussion of some of the subtleties of floating point numbers and their
+representations.
To do integer division and get an integer result,
discarding any fractional result, there is another operator, ``//``::