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Author	skip.montanaro
Recipients	skip.montanaro
Date	2007年09月01日.19:19:33
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Message-id	<1188674374.08.0.925919990107.issue1083@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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I discovered the hard way today that this won't work: >>> import datetime >>> d = datetime.timedelta(1) >>> d / 2 Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for /: 'datetime.timedelta' and 'int' The error message is misleading, because in fact timedelta objects do support division by ints, just not with the / operator: >>> d // 2 datetime.timedelta(0, 43200) Is there some way the error message can be improved, perhaps by identifying the denominator as effectively a float?

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I discovered the hard way today that this won't work:
>>> import datetime
>>> d = datetime.timedelta(1)
>>> d / 2
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for /: 'datetime.timedelta' and 'int'
The error message is misleading, because in fact timedelta
objects *do* support division by ints, just not with the
/ operator:
>>> d // 2
datetime.timedelta(0, 43200)
Is there some way the error message can be improved,
perhaps by identifying the denominator as effectively
a float?

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Date	User	Action	Args
2007年09月01日 19:19:34	skip.montanaro	set	spambayes_score: 0.312089 -> 0.31208885 recipients: + skip.montanaro
2007年09月01日 19:19:34	skip.montanaro	set	spambayes_score: 0.312089 -> 0.312089 messageid: <1188674374.08.0.925919990107.issue1083@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2007年09月01日 19:19:34	skip.montanaro	link	issue1083 messages
2007年09月01日 19:19:33	skip.montanaro	create

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