Odd floor-division corner case

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 From http://bugs.python.org/issue22198

 >>> -0.5 // float('inf')
-1.0

What should it be?

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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