floor of a float in python

Question

I have found two ways of taking floors in Python:

the first one is:

3.1415 // 1
 

and

the second one is :

import math
math.floor(3.1415)
 

The problem with the first approach is that it return a float (namely 3.0). The second approach feels clumsy and too long.Are there alternative solutions for taking floors in Python?

Answer 1

As long as your numbers are positive, you can simply convert to an int to round down to the next integer:

>>> int(3.1415)
3
For negative integers, this will round up, though.