So "/" actually represents two completely different functions, and to disambiguate between them you inspect the types of the operands. That works OK in statical

So "/" actually represents two completely different functions, and to disambiguate between them you inspect the types of the operands. That works OK in statically typed languages, but Python is dynamically typed. There's no way to specify which operator you want without verbosely type-casting before each use. So Python 3 fixes this by separating the two different functions to use different operators: "/" for Real (float) division, and "//" for integer division. Problem solved.