Could you all please start another thread if you want to discuss possible changes to Error handling for floats. Or anything that isn't strictly adding some names to builtins.
There's been ongoing confusion from the expansion of the original topic here. Thanks, -CHB On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 8:28 AM Stephen J. Turnbull < turnbull.stephen...@u.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote: > Paul Moore writes: > > > > And as soon as we start considering integer division, we're talking > > > > about breaking a *vast* amount of code. > > > > > > Yeah, I'm ok with *not* breaking that code. > > > > You may have misunderstood me - when I said "integer division", I > > meant "division of two integers", > > Just to clear it up, I understood your point correctly. "I'm ok with > *not* breaking that code" means "I'm talking about the mythical Python > 4.0, obviously we can't change the error raised by 1 / 0". > > > My *only* concern with the points you and Ben were making was that you > > seemed to be suggesting changes to the division operator and > > ZeroDivisionError, > > Once again, I am quite ok with *not* breaking all that code. My point > about the inconsistencies is not to suggest fixing them. I'm quite > sure that pragmatically we can't fix *all* of them, and most likely > we'd have to go slow on fixing *any* of them. Rather that the whole > float situation is so visually messy that we should leave it alone -- > although it probably works fine in practice until you have need for > NumPy for other reasons. > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/FXIBYNXE3B53RTGQWUZT2PGNZ5OXB3BM/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- Christopher Barker, PhD Python Language Consulting - Teaching - Scientific Software Development - Desktop GUI and Web Development - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython
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