Understand Python Division // Operator: A Beginner Guide

Python division // operator is confused when learning python. In this tutorial, we will use an example to help you understand it.

Look at this example below:

i = 11 / 3
print(i)

i = 12 / 3
print(i)

i = 11 //3
print(i)

i = 11.0 // 3.0
print(i)

In python 3.5, the result is:

3.6666666666666665
4.0
3
3.0

From the result, we can find:

• / operator is a real division, the result is a float number.
• // operator will return the integer part of the result, if the result is integer, // operator will return integer, otherwise, it will return a float number.