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		majewsky on Nov 16, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Numpy: Plan for dropping Python 2.7 support What's wrong about just `float(a)/float(b)`?

dagw on Nov 16, 2017 [–]

not everything that can be divided can be reasonably cast to a float

OOPMan on Nov 16, 2017 | [–]

Also, it's ugly as sin

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