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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 +++++++++++++++++++++++ |