[Verba] Re: wait!

[Stuart D. Gathman]

On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Rebecca Chenette wrote:

> Wait I have a guess about the reason python doesnt seem to do fractions: Is
> it because python rounds everything? like I put in 2001/2 and got 1000. So
> does python just round?

When dividing integers, python does integer division.  You get just the
whole number part of the result.  For the remainder, use the % operator.
You can get both quotient and remainder with divmod().

For example, 
>>> 2001%2
1
>>> divmod(2001,2)
(1000, 1)
>>> divmod(2,8)
(0, 2)

If one of the numbers is floating point, python will do floating point
division.  E.g.
>>> 2.0/8
0.25

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