I should probably explain (again) why I am not a fan of such a change. I blogged about this before -- this is mostly a treatise about / vs. //, but it explains my reservations about this proposal as well: http://python-history.blogspot.com/2009/03/problem-with-integer-division.html
In particular: """ For example, in ABC, when you divided two integers, the result was an exact rational number representing the result. [...] In my experience, rational numbers didn't pan out as ABC's designers had hoped. A typical experience would be to write a simple program for some business application (say, doing one’s taxes), and find that it was running much slower than expected. After some debugging, the cause would be that internally the program was using rational numbers with thousands of digits of precision to represent values that would be truncated to two or three digits of precision upon printing. This could be easily fixed by starting an addition with an inexact zero, but this was often non-intuitive and hard to debug for beginners. """ -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) *Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?)* <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-change-the-world/>
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