[ python-Bugs-1209411 ] divmod documentation shd reference // not /

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Bugs item #1209411, was opened at 2005-05-26 14:47
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Category: Documentation
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Alan (aisaac0)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: divmod documentation shd reference // not /

Initial Comment:
At http://docs.python.org/lib/typesnumeric.html we find:
divmod(x, y)  the pair (x / y, x % y)  (3)(4)

This should be:
divmod(x, y)  the pair (x // y, x % y)  (3)(4)

At
http://docs.python.org/lib/built-in-funcs.html#built-in-funcs
we find:
divmod(  a, b)
    .... For plain and long integers, the result is the
same as (a / b, a % b).

This should be:
    .... For plain and long integers, the result is the
same as (a // b, a % b).

Alternatively there could be a reference to 
"from __future__ import division"
but the proposed change is cleaner and will last.



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>Comment By: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger)
Date: 2005-05-31 06:04

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Fixed.
Thanks for the report.

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Comment By: Reinhold Birkenfeld (birkenfeld)
Date: 2005-05-31 05:27

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Agreed. This should be changed in the documentation before
it becomes wrong in Py3k ;)

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