Nasty typo in PEP 238 (revised)

[David Eppstein]

In article <cp4rrz5onj.fsf at cj20424-a.reston1.va.home.com>,
 Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

>     Q. How do I write code that works under the classic rules as well
>        as under the new rules without using // or a future division
>        statement?
> 
>     A. Use x*1.0/y for true division, divmod(x, y)[0] for int
>        division.  Especially the latter is best hidden inside a
>        function.  You may also write floor(x)/y for true division if
>        you are sure that you don't expect complex numbers.


Shouldn't this be float(x)/y ?

I still don't like the phrase "true division", it implies a value judgement 
that quotients are somehow an inferior thing to want to compute.
-- 
David Eppstein       UC Irvine Dept. of Information & Computer Science
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