How can I divide two integers stored in variables in Python

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I ve got two numbers stored in varibles  a and b  and i d like to see of the ratio of those two is an integer or not in python   However when I try  result   a  b   it gives me a   SyntaxError  invalid syntax   however if I say   result   a b   it truncates the decimal portion   How can I get the full numbeer to test for integrality    I was going to use  if  not isinstance result   int  long          then do something for non-integer numbers     Thanks  and i m using python 2 7 1

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if  a  is already a decimal  adding     would make 3 4 b for example  into 3 4  b  Try float a  b

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The 1  2 syntax works because 1  is a float  It s the same as 1 0  The dot isn t a special operator that makes something a float  So  you need to either turn one  or both  of the operands into floats some other way -- for example by using float   on them  or by changing however they were calculated to use floats -- or turn on  true division   by using from   future   import division at the top of the module

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x   y   quotient of x and y    x    y     floored  quotient of x and y

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Multiply by 1   result   1    a   b   or  using the float function  result   float a    b

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Use this line to get the division behavior you want   from   future   import division   Alternatively  you could use modulus   if  a   b     0   do something

[python] How can I divide two integers stored in variables in Python?

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