I've built Python for the iPhone app store (not jailbreak), http://www.sabonrai.com/PythonMath/<http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://www.sabonrai.com/PythonMath/> .

Like embedding Python in another app, it uses PyRun_SimpleString() to execute commands entered by the user. For evaluating expressions, it uses PyEval_EvalCode() with the dictionary from the __main__ module.

My problem is that future division ("from __future__ import division") works within scripts executed by import or execfile() but not when entered interactively in the interpreter like this:

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from __future__ import division a=2/3

When you do this, you get classic (integer) division, but if you enter it as follows, you get future (float) division.

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from __future__ import division;a=2/3

It appears that the CO_FUTURE_DIVISION compiler flag is not being retained in the interpreter so that later commands get compiled without that flag.

I found a hint in comp.lang.python<http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/13a90a9f6eb96c73/960e47f572a59711%3Flnk%3Dgst%26q%3Dco_future_division%23960e47f572a59711>, but I don't see that PyRun_SimpleStringFlags returns the flags it uses. I guess I could watch for the user to enter the import command and set the flags on every subsequent call but seems really brittle to me.

Thanks.

Terry