[Python-Dev] PEP 414 (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sun Feb 26 13:40:35 CET 2012

On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Ned Batchelder <ned at nedbatchelder.com> wrote:

There are already future imports that violate this principle:  from future import division.  That doesn't mean I'm in favor of this new future, just keeping a wide angle on the viewfinder.

Armin's straw poll was actually about whether or not people used the future import for division, rather than unicode literals. It is indeed the same problem - and several of us had a strong preference for forcing float division with "float(x) / y" over relying on the long distance effect of the future import (although it was only in this thread that I figured out exactly why I don't like those two, but happily used many of the other future imports when they were necessary).

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia

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