for / while else doesn't make sense

[Jon Ribbens]

On 2016-05-22, Random832 <random832 at fastmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 22, 2016, at 12:46, Jon Ribbens wrote:
>> Sorry, I have to stop you there as the entire premise of your post is
>> clearly wrong. "int" is not "an approximation of real numbers", it's
>> a model of the mathematical concept "integers",
>
> It is a representation of Z, a subset of R

Yes, that's what I just said. "Z" is just (an approximation of!)
a symbol that means "the set of integers".

> (as is float, technically, though that particular subset has no nice
> name like Z and Q) The operators that apply to it are the operations
> on R, even operations under which Z (or even R) is not closed.

No, in Python integers are closed under the standard arithmetic
operators (+ - * / % **) - except, since Python 3, for "/", which
is now a special case.