What is the difference between '/' and '//' when used for division?

Question

Is there a benefit to using one over the other? In Python 2, they both seem to return the same results:

>>> 6/3
2
>>> 6//3
2

Answer 1

The above answers are good. I want to add another point. Up to some values both of them result in the same quotient. After that floor division operator (//) works fine but not division (/) operator.

 - > int(755349677599789174/2)
 - > 377674838799894592      #wrong answer
 - > 755349677599789174 //2
 - > 377674838799894587      #correct answer