Alternate numeric proposal

[Skip Montanaro]

    Chris> Why don't we add a hook to Python to control the numeric
    Chris> evaluation rules directly?

Paul DuBois wrote a PEP on numeric kinds that seems to point in this
direction.  Take a look at

    http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0242.html

He doesn't directly address the int division thing, but does discuss having
some runtime control over some numeric properties.  Perhaps this could be
extended to allow programmers to dictate the default result of int division
on a per-module basis.

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