Re: recommended __future__ imports for 2.5?

2008-11-25 Thread Nick Craig-Wood
Dennis Lee Bieber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:36:32 -0700, Joe Strout [EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: older versions of Python with from __future__ import division. Once I stumbled across that, I was able to find the relevant PEP

Re: recommended __future__ imports for 2.5?

2008-11-25 Thread greg
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: I'm still waiting to hear that from __past__ import division Well, *I'm* waiting for the time machine technology to be declassified, so we'll be able to do from __future__ import * and get all the features that are ever going to be added to

recommended __future__ imports for 2.5?

2008-11-24 Thread Joe Strout
OK, this will probably be placed into the stupid question category by some, but I really am in need of a bit of guidance here. I just rediscovered the gotcha of integer division in 2.5 and below, and found (to my delight) that this is fixed in 3.0, and fixable in older versions of Python

Re: recommended __future__ imports for 2.5?

2008-11-24 Thread Terry Reedy
Joe Strout wrote: OK, this will probably be placed into the stupid question category by some, but I really am in need of a bit of guidance here. I just rediscovered the gotcha of integer division in 2.5 and below, and found (to my delight) that this is fixed in 3.0, and fixable in older