Question

In IronPython is there any way to force the expression containing integer values to be calculated as floating point. For instance, I’d like the expression

1/3

to be evaluated as

1./3. 

with the result 0.333…

I need this to make a simple run-time expression calculator within a C# project by means of IronPython. I cannot force users to input expression with trailing decimal points.

Answer 1

You may force a floating point division like any of these, no matter if anything is imported from __future__:

print val1 / (val2 + 0.0)
print (val1 + 0.0) / val2
print float(val1) / val2
print val1 / float(val2)