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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 15:23:45 -0400
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On 8/28/2013 11:15 AM, 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.

In Python since 2.??, put 'from __future__ import integer_division' 
(sp?) at the top of your code


-- 
Terry Jan Reedy