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Integer division debugging in Python

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The change in integer division seems to be the most insidious source of silent errors in porting code from python2 - since it changes the behavior or valid code silently.

I wish the interpreter had an instrumented mode to detect and report such problems.

posted Aug 28, 2013 by Satish Mishra

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Run the code under Python 2.6/2.7 with the -3 flag:

$ cat test.py 
print(10 / 7)

$ python -3 test.py
test.py:2: DeprecationWarning: classic int division
 print(10 / 7)
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answer Aug 28, 2013 by Bob Wise
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