[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-496549 ] -Qnew and in-place division "/="

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Bugs item #496549, was opened at 2001-12-24 13:02
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Category: Python Interpreter Core
Group: Python 2.2
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Bruce Sherwood (bsherwood)
Assigned to: Tim Peters (tim_one)
>Summary: -Qnew and in-place division "/="

Initial Comment:
(Closed bug report #488514 may be related to this bug, 
as it mentions some tests failing.)

If I invoke Python 2.2 with -Qnew, there is the 
following failure with in-place division:

print 5/2
a = 5
a /= 2
print a  # gives 2, should give 2.5

If I insert an explicit "from __future_ import 
division", the program works correctly.

Bruce Sherwood



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>Comment By: Bruce Sherwood (bsherwood)
Date: 2001-12-24 16:06

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You're correct that I was running from IDLE (on Windows). 
In the idlefork version of IDLE, I experimented with 
spawning a run with the -Qnew option and got the result I 
reported. It didn't occur to me to try it from a command 
line, thinking that the spawn was equivalent.

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Comment By: Tim Peters (tim_one)
Date: 2001-12-24 15:28

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Fudge -- this is my oversight.  I think a missing piece of 
info here is that you were running IDLE, right?  It gives 
2.5 under a native (DOS box; cmdline) shell.

If that's correct, it should be easy to repair, but 
requires code changes in the core.

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