A use for integer quotients

[Tim Peters]

[Bengt Richter]
> I wonder if the implementation is factored to where not using 
> floating point would let you substitute small exception-raising
> stubs for otherwise large (?? usually, floating point carries a
> lot of baggage along in the C/C++ world) chunks concerned with
? floating point.

No, it is not.
 
> Then that could be a make option. I was wondering if someone's 
> been there done that.

These folks have:

    http://www.abo.fi/~iporres/python/

Their patch is against 1.5.1, but I bet the principle still applies <wink>.