23 Jan
2007
23 Jan
'07
2:55 a.m.
Tim> For example, floor division isn't mentioned at all in IBM's Tim> proposed decimal standard, or in PEP 327, or in the Python Library Tim> Reference section on `decimal`. It's an artifact of trying to Tim> extend Python's integer mod definition to floats, and for reasons Tim> explained in this thread (for the 27th time ;-)), that definition Tim> doesn't make good sense for floats.... Tim> Do note that this discussion is only about Python 3.... Since Python 3 is about cleaning things up (at least in part) and Tim is telling us this is going to clean things up in this area, I'm +1 on this. Besides, I've found it's generally best to agree with Tim. ;-) Skip