[Python-ideas] Re: division of integers should result in fractions not floats

On 5/14/21 2:34 PM, Eric V. Smith wrote:

My understanding of the proposal is that OP is only talking about <literal-integer> / <literal-integer> becomes a Fraction. So:

x=1 x/2 # unchanged, still yields a float.

It's only literals like "1/2" that would become Fraction(1,2).

Ah -- which means we end up with fractions and fraction math which results in memory and time issues, since most fraction/fraction operations return, unsurprisingly, fractions. -- ~Ethan~