Language change and code breaks

[David Bolen]

"Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik at pythonware.com> writes:

> David Bolen wrote:
> >
> > > And a//b definitely beats (a+0.)/b, which does the trick, but is not
> > > at all evident.
> >
> > Well, I'd probably suggest using "float(a)/b" instead which at least
> > makes it a little easier to see what's going on :-)
> 
> except that it doesn't do the right thing if a is a complex
> number.

Hmm, good point - I hadn't thought of that.

Of course, if a was complex then we wouldn't be worried about a/b
truncating anything either.  But definitely something to keep in mind
if working on code that might receive either complex or integer
parameters.

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