[Tutor] Problem with division in Python22

[dman]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 08:13:14AM +0100, Gregor Lingl wrote:
| Thanks, this works!
| 
| But hasn't this to be considered as a bug,
| as it breaks code developed for up to 2.2?

Not a bug, but an incompatible change.  The whole "true division"
thing is an incompatible change, so apparently the magic method name
has changed correspondingly.  

Taking a look at the PEP shows the following snippets :


    During the transitional phase, we have to support *three* division
    operators within the same program:
<...>

    In Python 3.0, the classic division semantics will be removed; the
    classic division APIs will become synonymous with true division.

So yeah, old code will break, but it almost surely would have broken
anyways and at least this way you get an exception to tell you.

-D

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