How to parsing a sequence of integers

[Joe Strout]

Mensanator wrote:

>> from __future__ import division
>>
>> at the top of the file. I put this at the top of all my Python files,
>> whether I expect to be dividing or not. It just saves grief.
> 
> If you want division to be floating point.
> If, like me, you rarely do floating point
> division and want the "/" to mean integer
> division as God intended, then you don't
> put from __future__ import division in your
> source files.
> 
> That's one of the good things about Python,
> you can have it either way.

Until you someday move up to Python 3, at which point you'll have to go 
back and change all your code to use the unambiguous // operator when 
you mean integer division.  Better to do it now, I think, at least in 
any new code you write, to save you the hassle later.

For those not familiar with the topic:

    <http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0238/>

Best,
- Joe