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. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
