New submission from Bernhard Reiter: http://docs.python.org/3.4/library/xmlrpc.client.html as of 2013-06-19 20:35 UTC has a divide example and the output can misslead the learning reader towards the new behaviour of python3 with the '/' binary operator for division. server code: def divide(x, y): return x/y client code: multicall.divide(7,3) [..] print("7+3=%d, 7-3=%d, 7*3=%d, 7/3=%d" % tuple(result)) The client call results into: python3 client.py 7+3=10, 7-3=4, 7*3=21, 7/3=2 This is missleading because '7/3' is now resulting to a float in python3 (see PEP238).The example probably was copied over from the python2 documentation where '7/3' result to int. The implicit conversion from float to int is done in the string formatting. Proposal replace the print line with print("7+3=%d, 7-3=%d, 7*3=%d, 7/3=%g" % tuple(result)) to get 7+3=10, 7-3=4, 7*3=21, 7/3=2.33333 or print(repr(tuple(result))) to get (10, 4, 21, 2.3333333333333335) ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 191495 nosy: ber, docs@python priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: xmlrpc.client documentation multicall example missleading for division behaviour of python3 versions: Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18267> _______________________________________