recommended __future__ imports for 2.5?

Nick Craig-Wood nick at craig-wood.com
Tue Nov 25 04:30:40 EST 2008


Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>  On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:36:32 -0700, Joe Strout <joe at strout.net>
>  declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
> 
> > older versions of Python with "from __future__ import division".  Once  
> > I stumbled across that, I was able to find the relevant PEP (#238) and  
> > read more about it.  So now that import has become part of our  
> > standard boilerplate at the top of each file, along with the path to  
> > Python and the UTF-8 encoding declaration.
> >
>  	I'm still waiting to hear that
> 
>  	from __past__ import division
> 
>  will become a reality...

;-)

I think that is called using // instead of / which works without any
from __future__ import from python 2.2 onwards.

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