Nasty typo in PEP 238 (revised)

[David Eppstein]

In article <yu99n15qdzs7.fsf at europa.research.att.com>,
 Andrew Koenig <ark at research.att.com> wrote:

> >> A. Use x*1.0/y for true division, divmod(x, y)[0] for int
> >> division.  Especially the latter is best hidden inside a
> >> function.  You may also write floor(x)/y for true division if
> >> you are sure that you don't expect complex numbers.
> 
> David> Shouldn't this be float(x)/y ?
> 
> What if x is complex?

Did you read the last line?
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David Eppstein       UC Irvine Dept. of Information & Computer Science
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