[Python3] Why?

[donsy]

Python 2.x correctly returns binomial coefficients and permutations as integers or longs. Why was this changed in py3?

Python 3.2.2 (default, Sep 5 2011, 22:09:30)
[GCC 4.6.1] on linux2
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>>> from math import factorial
>>> factorial(6)/(factorial(3)*factorial(3))
20.0
>>> factorial(6)
720
>>> factorial(6)/factorial(3)
120.0
>>>
I know I can always wrap the expressions in int(). But that shouldn't be necessary because binomial coefficients and permutations are always int's and it makes about as much sense as
>>> int(float(42))
42
>>>

[Bachstelze]

*sigh*

Integer division in Python 3 is done with //. You could have just asked instead of going on a rant about how it doesn't make sense, because if anything, how Python 2 does it makes even less.

[donsy]

I stand corrected.