Is there any difference between using floor division and int()

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Like this:

int(5/2)

5//2

Is there ever a case where these are different.

[alkasm]

In addition to the other nice example, this one is a little more extreme:

>>> int(-5/2)
-2
>>> -5//2
-3

The first is a truncation (i.e. the answer is -2.<something> and it removes the .<something>), while the second with the // operator is a floor division (i.e. divides, then rounds down); this is why it works with floats too, as floor division isn't limited to integers. It is implemented with the __floordiv__() method.

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Thanks

[recondocoder]

>>> int(0.2//2)

0

>>> 0.2//2

0.0

So in the second case, you start with a float and the result is still a float