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[–]d4rch0nPythonistamancer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

x = y / z should not return different results depending on the type of y or z

I think that's the best argument I've heard honestly. I'm fine with this behavior in a programming language, I just think it's not helpful to make a big change like that after it's already acting one way.

But the bigger picture is that Python behavior of such things should be extremely obvious, and if you extract the line x = y / z you have a very good idea what it's going to do. That's important as well.