[IronPython] true division?

[John Machin]

On 22/09/2006 8:10 AM, Michael Foord wrote:
> Gary Stephenson wrote:
>> Thanks John (and Seo),
>>
>> When I attempt the same thing I get: 
>>   
> Of course. The correct syntax is:
>>>> from __future__ import division
> 
> ;-)

Of course nothing.

Gary's original problem has nothing to do with syntax; he used the 
correct syntax (from name1 import name2) but supplied an incorrect value 
(true_division, IIRC) for name2.

In my whimsical advertisement for introspection, IronPython accepted the 
correct syntax (import name1). The difference between my whimsy outcome 
and Gary's is most likely because I've got the CPython Lib on my 
sys.path for IronPython, and he hasn't:

| DOS_prompt>\ironpython\ipy
| IronPython 1.0.60816 on .NET 2.0.50727.42
| Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
| >>> import __future__
| >>> __future__.__file__
| 'C:\\Python24\\Lib\\__future__.py'
| >>>

HTH,
John