proposed language change to int/int==float (was: PEP0238 lament)

[Guido van Rossum]

"Bjorn Pettersen" <BPettersen at NAREX.com> writes:

> I think perhaps an equally interesting example is something like:
> 
>   2L**128/2
> 
> which currently gives an exact result, but under the proposed new
> semantics would give an approximation...

Have you read the PEP?  The PEP only returns a float if the int result
would yield a remainder.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)