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@mdickinson mdickinson commented Mar 19, 2023

This PR documents the long-standing behaviour that the floor division operator // applied to float operands returns a result of type float.

Also adds a missing note to the table to note that x // y isn't valid for complex numbers.

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Indeed, information about mixed arithmetic is given above.
LGTM

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Thanks!

@hugovk hugovk enabled auto-merge (squash) September 7, 2023 14:13
@hugovk hugovk added needs backport to 3.11 only security fixes needs backport to 3.12 only security fixes labels Sep 7, 2023
@hugovk hugovk merged commit b72251d into python:main Sep 7, 2023
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Thanks @mdickinson for the PR, and @hugovk for merging it 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.11, 3.12.
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miss-islington pushed a commit to miss-islington/cpython that referenced this pull request Sep 7, 2023
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GH-109092 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.12 branch.

@bedevere-bot bedevere-bot removed the needs backport to 3.12 only security fixes label Sep 7, 2023
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GH-109093 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.11 branch.

miss-islington pushed a commit to miss-islington/cpython that referenced this pull request Sep 7, 2023
…thonGH-102824) (cherry picked from commit b72251d) Co-authored-by: Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <hugovk@users.noreply.github.com>
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…H-102824) (#109093) Co-authored-by: Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <hugovk@users.noreply.github.com>
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…H-102824) (#109092) gh-102823: Document return type of floor division on floats (GH-102824) (cherry picked from commit b72251d) Co-authored-by: Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <hugovk@users.noreply.github.com>
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