On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Sebastian Haase <seb.ha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was only asking for the use of the '//' operator, which is "at > least" backwards compatible to Python 2.2 -- I don't know the exact > version when it was introduced.... > Are you saying that 1.5.2 did not know about it and you "need" to > support those ? Yeah, but what I'm saying is that there's no point changing existing code that's targeting the 2.x series -- the existing code already works, a change would break compatibility with versions supported today, and division is just one of a *huge* list of things that needs to be changed to get a library like PIL running under 3.X. And this is already fixed in the 3.X branch, of course. > (I'm asking because in the mathematical community using true-division > behavior is quite beneficial, even for Python 2.x ) "True division" can also be spelled "float(x) / y", and that spelling works in all Python versions (and is used in plenty of places in PIL). </F> _______________________________________________ Image-SIG maillist - Image-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig
