from __past__ import integerDivision (was Re: A modest PEP0238 suggestion)

[Stephen Horne]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 00:09:17 +0000 (UTC), missive at frontiernet.net (Lee
Harr) wrote:

>On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 16:13:59 -0700, David Eppstein <eppstein at ics.uci.edu> wrote:
>> In article <9jiak1$3s96$3 at node21.cwnet.roc.gblx.net>,
>>  missive at frontiernet.net (Lee Harr) wrote:
>> 
>>> we already have people importing things from the __future__,
>>> how difficult would it be to let people drag things from the __past__?
>> 
>> Doesn't do anything for the people who are running precompiled scripts 
>> acquired from somewhere else, or who have warnings redirected to where they 
>> won't be seen.
>
>I have not used it, but I think you can define a script that runs
>every time python starts up.

Yes - but end users are not going to know they need to check for
problems, they only know they have this utility that's been happily
working since way back when, and suddenly it doesn't work any more.

Oh - there is, of course, one more thing they know. It's all *my*
fault ;-)