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Message: [QUOTE="Jerry Hill, post: 4067479"] You didn't say what version of python you were using, but this seems to work for me in 2.6.4: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#5>", line 1, in <module> float(long1) OverflowError: long int too large to convert to float 0.5 The "from __future__ import division" line gets python to return a float as the result of dividing two integers (or longs), instead of returning an integer. If I recall correctly, this has been available for quite a few python versions (since 2.2 maybe?), and has become the default in python 3. If you need to do integer division, you would use the // operator: 0L Hope that helps. [/QUOTE]