Radical Suggestion for Integer Division Migration

[David Bolen]

Carl Banks <idot at vt.edu> writes:

> Basically, have all integer division using the "/" operator throw an
> exception during the transition period, unless "from __future__ import
> division" appears in the module.  

I'm definitely not in favor of this.  What this does is essentially
move a hot cut date for backwards compatibility right to the very
first release that is built to transition to the new behavior.  In
other words, it removes any possibility of a graceful transition with
older code.  Sure warnings could be ignored, but that's the whole
point - you have some time during which you can ignore them but your
code keeps working, while you work to fix the issues.

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