[Python-Dev] Integer division transition

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Charles G Waldman writes:
 > OK, I stand corrected and feel suitably foolish.  However I still
 > think it's quite inconsistent to have divmod(a,b) but a div b.

  I suspect div would be much more widely used than divmod(), which is
essentially a performance optimization when you need both results.
One reason *not* to make divmod() an operator, aside from issues of
legacy code, is that it really returns two results (never mind that it
returns exactly one tuple); I can't think of another operator that
conceptually returns two values.


  -Fred

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