Changing the Division Operator -- PEP 238, rev 1.12

[Mark Day]

In article <mailman.996531656.19551.python-list at python.org>,
<Arthur_Siegel at rsmi.com> wrote:

> >Agreed.  But what struck me was that when a non-programmer came to a
> >Python discussion list asking whether Python was suitable for his
> >project, several people warning him about the pitfalls of division (and
> >not much else).
> 
> Must have missed all this.  Where and when was this thread?

Somewhere in one of the posts on the many PEP 238 threads was the
following link to a discussion in a google group:
<http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&safe=off&th=1d9d3c24ba2f933d>

The same post also mentioned other (earlier?) dicussions on a Yahoo
group about integer division in Python.

-Mark