Changing the Division Operator -- PEP 238, rev 1.12

[Guido van Rossum]

cjc26 at nospam.cornell.edu (Cliff Crawford) writes:

> |     For complex numbers, // raises an exception, since float() of a
> |     complex number is not allowed.
> 
> Shouldn't this read, "since floor() of a complex number is not allowed"?
> That would make more sense in context..

Yes.  But it's the same difference: floor() of a complex doesn't work
because float() of a complex doesn't work. :-)

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