Comment on PEP-0238

[Greg Ewing]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
> I just discovered that we don't need to add a new operator overloading
> name for the div and mod operations: classes already look for a
> __divmod__ method to overload divmod(), and we should naturally define
> div(x, y) (or x div y) as divmod(x, y)[0].

That sounds suspiciously similar to the argument that
we don't need __eq__, __le__ etc. because we can just
as well funnel them all through __cmp__...

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