[Python-Dev] PEP 303: Extend divmod() for Multiple Divisors

[Lalo Martins]

I'm +0 on this (reasons below), but since Guido already said no:

I find this function pretty useful, as it serves to collapse ugly code, and
I hate ugly python code.  However, the name sucks.  With your changes,
'divmod' doesn't describe it anymore.

So I suggest you come up with a better name and offer it as a contribution
to, say, the math module.  In that case I would prefer to have the reverse
function too.

(The fact that using it with 2 args is equal to calling divmod is at most a
funny fact.  As Guido says, growing the library = good; growing the language =
questionable)

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