Random thought (hopefully more sensible than my last one):
Would it make sense in P3K to keep using '/' for CS-style division (int/int -> rounded-down-int), and to introduce 'ö' for math-style division (intöint -> float-when-necessary)?
Careful with your character sets there... The symbol you typed looks like a lowercase o with dieresis to me. :-( Assuming you're proposing something like this: . --- . I'm not so sure that choosing a non-ASCII symbol is going to work. For starters, it's on very few keyboards, and that won't change soon! In the past we've talked about using // for integer division and / for regular (int/int->float) division. This would mean that we have to introduce // now as an alias for /, and encourage people to use it for int division (only); then in 1.7 using / between ints will issue a compatibility warning, and in Py3K int/int will yield a float. It's still going to be painful, though. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)