On Mon, 1 Apr 2019 10:41:40 -0400 Dan Sommers <2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com> wrote: > On 4/1/19 10:27 AM, Antoine Pietri wrote: > > > - The / operator returns floats, which loses information when both of > > the operands are integer. In Python 4, “1 / 2” should return a > > decimal.Decimal. To ease the transition, we propose to add a new “from > > __future__ import decimal_division” in Python 3.9 to enable this > > behavior. > > “1 / 2” should be a syntax error. > > "1 / 2" should return a string. > > 1 / 2 should return a fractions.Fraction.
And 01 / 04 / 2019 should return a April 1st datetime. (except in the US, of course) Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
