There are more than just 2 division operators: there's floor, ceil, real and and floating point. Floor and ceil division are both integer valued and differ only for negative results. Unsurprisingly, floor division is equivalent to real division rounded down and ceil to real division rounded up. As Rickard says, which division operator(s) a language supports depends on the language's purpose.
These days (from version 2.2), Python supports both floor division & floating point division with the '//' and '/' operators, respectively. In python 2.X, you have to import the division feature from __future__ to get this behavior.
from __future__ import division # prints '0.5 0' print 1/2, 1//2
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There are more than just 2 division operators: there's floor, ceil, real and and floating point. Floor and ceil division are both integer valued and differ only for negative results. Unsurprisingly, floor division is equivalent to real division rounded down and ceil to real division rounded up. As Rickard says, which division operator(s) a language supports depends on the language's purpose.
These days (from version 2.2), Python supports both floor division & floating point division with the '//' and '/' operators, respectively. In python 2.X, you have to import the division feature from __future__ to get this behavior.
from __future__ import division
# prints '0.5 0'
print 1/2, 1//2