[issue22444] Floor divide should return int

Mark Dickinson report at bugs.python.org
Mon Sep 22 19:29:15 CEST 2014


Mark Dickinson added the comment:

> If we take this route, what float('inf') // 1 and float('nan') // 1 should return?

Probably exactly the same as they do right now.  I think there's an argument that `float('inf') // 1` "should have been" `float('inf')`.  But I'm not sure there's much of a case for *changing* the current return value.

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