Language change and code breaks

[Emile van Sebille]

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> Is there really much code that depends on 1/3 == 0 being true?

I use it.  I imagine that for as long as it's been that way, if everyone
were constantly writing some form of float(x)/y or 1.0*x/y or x/7.0 all the
time and never using is as integer math, it likely would have been changed
long before I started with python... ;-)

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Emile van Sebille
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