Comment on PEP-0238

[Rainer Deyke]

"Guido van Rossum" <guido at python.org> wrote in message
news:cpsngaja4g.fsf at cj20424-a.reston1.va.home.com...
> Unfortunately, the number of potential Python programmers who will be
> frustrated by the current integer division is much larger than the
> number of established Python programmers.  The sooner we fix this the
> better!

Just to add another perspective: in my own Python code (which isn't much
right now), I have literally hundreds of places where truncating integer
division is required.  I have yet to find a single use for floating point
numbers in Python, or any other non-integer number for that matter.


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