Future division patch available (PEP 238)

[Markus Schaber]

Hi,

Anders J. Munch <andersjm at dancontrol.dk> schrub:

> Another option would be to add a new infix operator to the language
> with the same precedence as /. Something with a long clunky name, like
> "__oldstyle_divide__", whose only raison d'être is compatibility
> hacks. Changing
>     E1 / E2
> to
>     E1 __oldstyle_divide__ E2
> doesn't require deep parsing.

The problem here is that / also is a word delimiter.

so you have to replace a/b with a __oldstyle_divide_ b, inserting 
blanks around the operator.


My way would be to let / be as it was, and to import // as a new 
operator that returns a float when dividing two integers who don't fit.

And then document this behaviour at famous places.

markus

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