A use for integer quotients

Steve Horne sh at ttsoftware.co.uk
Mon Jul 23 14:15:33 EDT 2001


On 23 Jul 2001 16:09:47 GMT, Duncan Grisby
<dgrisby at uk.research.att.com> wrote:

>In article <cpzo9veuml.fsf at cj20424-a.reston1.va.home.com>,
> Guido van Rossum  <guido at python.org> wrote:
>
>>Of course, I'm well aware of the issues around maintaining old code.
>>We will have to carry around "from __future__ import division" for a
>>loooooong time.  Python 2.2 is the first opportunity to introduce it,
>>so let's not be shy.
>
>What is the suggested course of action for people (like me) who have
>to maintain software which must run on more than one version of
>Python?

Probably to change jobs quick before it hits the fan :-(

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