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Subscriber123 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How did the new division ever get approved?!
By being introduced as a PEP, which is now numbered PEP 238.
<URL:http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0238/>
> That's not pythonic! What if you then need to divide two integers
> and find an element in a list or dict?
Then your code is dependent on ambiguous behaviour which has changed
in newer Python versions.
As described in the above document, the '//' operator will
unambiguously request floor division, even in older versions of
Python.
> I know that at the moment it is not implemented unless imported from
> __future__, but I expect that it eventually might be.
Please read PEP 238 to see the implementation plan.
> That would be a problem with backwards compatibility.
The older Python versions aren't going away. Anyone who wants their
old code to work with new versions of Python has a responsibility to
see what parts of their code need to be updated.
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