Re: Why Python 3?

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Date	2014-04-20 11:28 +1000
Subject	Re: Why Python 3?
From	Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Message-ID	<mailman.9373.1397957316.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Gregory Ewing
<greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>> I'd rather have to explicitly request floating-point division;
>
>
> When you write / in Python 3, you *are* explicitly requesting
> floating-point division.
>
> Similarly, when you write // you're explicitly requesting
> integer division.
>
> I don't see the problem. You write whatever you mean and it
> does what you tell it to do.

Truncating vs true is not the same as int vs float. If you mean to
explicitly request float division, you call float() on one or both
arguments. You're being explicit about something different.

ChrisA

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