4. Operators and Expressions
This chapter describes Python’s built-in operators, expressions, and evaluation rules. Although much of this chapter describes Python’s built-in types, user-defined objects can easily redefine any of the operators to provide their own behavior.
Operations on Numbers
The following operations can be applied to all numeric types:
The truncating division operator (//, also known as floor division) truncates the result to an integer and works with both integers and floating-point numbers. In Python 2, the true division operator (/) also truncates the result to an integer if the operands are integers. Therefore, 7/4 is ...
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