Floor division with negative number

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The // operator explicitly floors the result. Quoting the Binary arithmetic operations documentation:

the result is that of mathematical division with the ‘floor’ function applied to the result.

Flooring is not the same thing as rounding to 0; flooring always moves to the lower integer value. See the math.floor() function:

Return the floor of x, the largest integer less than or equal to x.

For -6 // 4, first the result of -6 / 4 is calculated, so -1.5. Flooring then moves to the lower integer value, so -2.

If you want to round towards zero instead, you’ll have to do so explicitly; you could do this with the int() function on true division:

>>> int(-6 / 4)
-1

int() removes the decimal portion, so always rounds towards zero instead.

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