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[Python-Dev] Path PEP and the division operator

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Sat Feb 4 17:05:59 CET 2006 
I won't even look at the PEP as long as it uses / or // (or any other
operator) for concatenation.

On 2/3/06, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> I was tinkering with something today, and wondered whether it would cause
> fewer objections if the PEP used the floor division operator (//) to combine
> path fragments, instead of the true division operator?
>
> The parallel to directory separators is still there, but the syntax isn't tied
> quite so strongly to the Unix path separator.
>
> Cheers,
> Nick.
>
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