True Division in Python

[Terry Reedy]

<kermit at polaris.net> wrote in message 
news:1165448464.077200.128340 at n67g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
> For a long time,,   There has been a  discussion of trueFor  division
> versus integer division in Python.

The discussion and the decision to use // and / were years ago.

> I myslef prefer that / be used for integer division since almost
> always, I want the result of the
> division be truncated to integer.

So use //

> However, today I reviewed the method to be used in Python to get true
> division, and this gave
> me an idea how true division could be implemented without interferring
> with the use of
> / for integer division.
> Use  / for  integer division
> single slash is the operator for integer division.
> Use ./ for true division.
> period slash is the operator for true division.

Proposing to use / and ./ instead of // and / is a waste of time.   Really

Terry Jan Reedy