Future division patch available (PEP 238)

[Moshe Zadka]

On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Robin Becker <robin at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:

[about //]
> it just looks awful as well as annoying those who don't want this
> change.

Any solution would have annoyed the other side, and one solution
had to be taken.
And no, "inertia" isn't an excuse. Python cannot be ruled by inertia,
just as it cannot arbitrarily break backwards compat. 

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