Nasty typo in PEP 238 (revised)
David Eppstein
eppstein at ics.uci.edu
Fri Jul 27 14:42:54 EDT 2001
In article <yu99n15qdzs7.fsf at europa.research.att.com>,
Andrew Koenig <ark at research.att.com> wrote:
> >> A. Use x*1.0/y for true division, divmod(x, y)[0] for int
> >> division. Especially the latter is best hidden inside a
> >> function. You may also write floor(x)/y for true division if
> >> you are sure that you don't expect complex numbers.
>
> David> Shouldn't this be float(x)/y ?
>
> What if x is complex?
Did you read the last line?
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David Eppstein UC Irvine Dept. of Information & Computer Science
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