Comment on PEP-0238

[Emile van Sebille]

"Guido van Rossum" <guido at python.org> wrote in message
news:cpelrskgrr.fsf at cj20424-a.reston1.va.home.com...
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> (Hm.  For various reasons I'm very tempted to introduce 'yield' as a
> new keyword without warnings or future statements in Python 2.2, so
> maybe I should bite the bullet and add 'div' as well...)
>


If you're going to add keywords, why not add precision and allow those who
want non-integer division to set it to the level of precision they require.
That breaks no more code (presumably) than adding div or yield does.

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Emile van Sebille
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