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Fri Aug 31 05:17:36 CEST 2007 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-August/074376.html

Jason Orendorff wrote:
> I think the weirdness comes from parsing -a/b as (-a)/b rather than
> -(a/b).

This will sort of be fixed in 3.0, at least for /, because
it will always mean float division, for which -(a/b) == (-a)/b.

You'll have to use // to get weirdness, then. :-)

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