Re: python3 integer division debugging

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Subject	Re: python3 integer division debugging
Date	Wed, 28 Aug 2013 11:24:03 -0400
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On Wed, Aug 28, 2013, at 11:15, Neal Becker wrote:
> The change in integer division seems to be the most insidious source of
> silent 
> errors in porting code from python2 - since it changes the behaviour or
> valid 
> code silently.
> 
> I wish the interpreter had an instrumented mode to detect and report such 
> problems.

There is such a mode in python2 from version 2.2 through 2.7: -Q warn.

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Re: python3 integer division debugging random832@fastmail.us - 2013-08-28 11:24 -0400

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