Bugs item #1385055, was opened at 2005-12-19 10:15 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by harripasanen You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1385055&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Python Interpreter Core Group: Python 2.4 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Harri Pasanen (harripasanen) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: execfile anomaly with "from __future__ import division" Initial Comment: If I have a file init.py with two lines: from __future__ import division print 3/4 and I do [EMAIL PROTECTED] tests]$ python Python 2.4 (#1, Feb 16 2005, 01:23:25) [GCC 3.4.3 (Mandrakelinux 10.0 3.4.3-2mdk)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> execfile('init.py') 0.75 >>> 3/4 0 I would have expected the latter to return 0.75 as well. Due to this it seems impossible to provide init code that would initialize the interactive prompt to future division behaviour. The same applies to exec statement. I'm not sure if this is bug, or an unfortunate feature. The documention is not very clear on this issue. -Harri ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Harri Pasanen (harripasanen) Date: 2005-12-19 10:42 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=77088 Looks like this is a duplicate of [ 567568 ] future division broken w/ PYTHONSTARTUP http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=5470&atid=105470&func=detail&aid=567568 As I suspected, it is an unfortunate feature. Tim's explication provides the missing documentation. And I assume the exec statement provides its own anonymous module. Btw. where is the -Qnew documented? from __future__ division docs should carry a pointer to it. Here is another thread on the subject in the ipython mailing list: http://scipy.net/pipermail/ipython-user/2005-December/001183.html This can be closed. -Harri ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1385055&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com