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[Python-Dev] Path PEP and the division operator

Duncan Booth duncan.booth at suttoncourtenay.org.uk
Sat Feb 4 18:26:12 CET 2006 
BJörn Lindqvist <bjourne at gmail.com> wrote in
news:740c3aec0602040816w34981344n271b237d6b6c9fd5 at mail.gmail.com: 

> On 2/4/06, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>> I won't even look at the PEP as long as it uses / or // (or any other
>> operator) for concatenation.
> 
> That's good, because it doesn't. :)
> http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0355.html 
> 
No, but it does say that / may be reintroduced 'if the BFDL so desires'. I 
hope that doesn't mean the BDFL may be overruled. :^)

I'm not convinced by the rationale given why atime,ctime,mtime and size are 
methods rather than properties but I do find this PEP much more agreeable 
than the last time I looked at it.
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