Division oddity

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Tue Jan 13 11:17:58 EST 2004


Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> writes:

> Tim Rowe wrote:
> > 
> > Well, the documentation for "input()" says "Equivalent to
> > eval(raw_input(/prompt/))". Perhaps it should say "/Usually/
> > equivalent...."
> 
> I remember reading that too, and just assumed that at this point
> it was in fact *implemented* that way, as a simple alias.  Maybe
> it should be...

http://www.python.org/sf/876178

Ideas on how to write a testcase welcome.

Cheers,
mwh

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