Python: Remove division decimal

You can call int() on the end result:

>>> int(2.0)
2

When a number as a decimal it is usually a float in Python.

If you want to remove the decimal and keep it an integer (int). You can call the int() method on it like so...

>>> int(2.0)
2

However, int rounds down so...

>>> int(2.9)
2

If you want to round to the nearest integer you can use round:

>>> round(2.9)
3.0
>>> round(2.4)
2.0

And then call int() on that:

>>> int(round(2.9))
3
>>> int(round(2.4))
2

There is a math function modf() that will break this up as well.

import math

print("math.modf(3.14159) : ", math.modf(3.14159))

will output a tuple: math.modf(3.14159) : (0.14159, 3.0)

This is useful if you want to keep both the whole part and decimal for reference like:

decimal, whole = math.modf(3.14159)

You could probably do like below

# p and q are the numbers to be divided
if p//q==p/q:
    print(p//q)
else:
    print(p/q)

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