[Zope] Future watch: how will python division changeaffectzope?

[Paul Winkler]

marc lindahl wrote:
> 
> > From: Dieter Maurer <dieter@handshake.de>
> >>
> >> Go to agree with that. What are the reasons _for_ doing this?
> > Most people without knowledge of "C" derived programming languages
> > are astonished that "1/2" can be "0".
> 
> ...conversely, most programmers (the hardware independent ones!) are
> astonished when they find out the overhead involved in the floating point
> operation....

Anyone who cares about that can easily RTFM and learn how to get what they want.
Python has always excelled at enabling newbies to get the results they want with
a minimum of fuss. I think this PEP is entirely consistent with that design goal
for the language, and it takes away no power from anyone who is able to read the
manual.

Anyway, this change has long been in the works; Guido has been talking about it
for many years and has probably heard every possible argument by now.

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