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| author | Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> | 2015-02-27 20:10:03 (GMT) |
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| committer | Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> | 2015-02-27 20:10:03 (GMT) |
| commit | fdde79dbf6ae6d1d3b15770a2e87a5108197d826 (patch) | |
| tree | b613b8d06aeae8a4c067324b13ffcc4764c9ed17 /Doc | |
| parent | c332f8a4920f11a2acad55abe5592afa94527723 (diff) | |
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Fix the clarification as to why division cannot be ported automatically
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/howto/pyporting.rst | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/howto/pyporting.rst b/Doc/howto/pyporting.rst index bd80dfd..d2cd9de 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/pyporting.rst +++ b/Doc/howto/pyporting.rst @@ -169,8 +169,9 @@ things: division or continue using ``/`` and expect a float The reason that ``/`` isn't simply translated to ``//`` automatically is that if -an object defines its own ``__div__`` method but not ``__floordiv__`` then your -code would begin to fail. +an object defines a ``__truediv__`` method but not ``__floordiv__`` then your +code would begin to fail (e.g. a user-defined class that uses ``/`` to +signify some operation but not ``//`` for the same thing or at all). Text versus binary data +++++++++++++++++++++++ |