Modern Language Wishlist

Re:Modern Language Wishlist by gbog on Thursday February 02, 2012 @07:50PM (#3545261)

How far is Python from this list? Macros are missing but the remaining list seem close to me.

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Re:Modern Language Wishlist by tomp on Friday February 03, 2012 @04:35AM (#3546481)

Math sucks a lot in Python 2.7:

  3 / 2 == 1

Python 3 fixes that, thou, but still it uses floating point numbers instead of rational numbers.

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Re:Modern Language Wishlist by lloeki on Friday February 03, 2012 @07:12AM (#3546809)

> it uses floating point numbers instead of rational numbers.

import decimal

import fractions

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Re:Modern Language Wishlist by emillon on Friday February 03, 2012 @05:07AM (#3546550)

There "from __future__ import division" to fix that.

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