On 2016-05-23, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 3:09 AM, Jon Ribbens ><jon+use...@unequivocal.co.uk> wrote: >> On 2016-05-23, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: >>> But one thing is certain: very few people, Jon Ribbens being one of them, >>> expects 1/3 to return 0. And that is why Python changed the meaning of >>> the / operator: because using it for integer division was deeply unpopular >>> and a bug magnet. >> >> Making it return floats is also a bug magnet, just for more subtle >> bugs that are harder to diagnose. > > See my earlier post. There are four broadly-viable options: int, > float, Fraction, Decimal. *Every one of them* is a bug magnet in one > way or another. Which kind of bug would you like?
The simplest one - isn't that obvious from what I've already said? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
