PEP238 and zope

[Christian Tanzer]

barry at zope.com (Barry A. Warsaw) wrote:

> >>>>> "TJ" == Tom Jenkins <tjenkins at nospiced.ham.devis.com> writes:
> 
>     TJ> these snippets.  I don't believe zope will surface any
>     TJ> warnings that PEP238 stipulates (tho I may be wrong).  How do
>     TJ> we code _now_ so as to minimize our pain?
> 
> >>> must_be_int = 1 / 2
> >>> must_be_int
> 0
> >>> must_be_int = int(1.0 / 2.0)
> >>> must_be_int
> 0

This isn't portable behavior. According to the python library
reference, `int` may round on some platforms. 

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