[MATRIX-SIG] integer division -- what a concept!

[Konrad Hinsen]

> With all this talk about fixing Python so it behaves reasonably, I
> guess the fix I would most like to see would be some sort of a "type
> constraint" mechanism.  If I could've said that that the operands to
> my function were constrained to be of some type that supported
> floating point arithematic, then I wouldn't have been bit.  

Python even has such a mechanism - but only for C functions. If you
ask PyArg_ParseTuple() to parse an argument as float or double, it
will also accept and convert integers.

There was some discussion on optional type specifications at the last
Python Conference; if something like that ever gets implemented,
we might succeed in getting such a type constraint mechanism as
a byproduct.
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