R. David Murray added the comment: I think Terry and his OP are reacting to the fact that "-190 % 12 == -10" looks like it is saying that that expression is True in Python, which it is not (and that's the point).
IMO, another issue is that "and then compilers that truncate i // j need to make i % j have the same sign as i." doesn't have enough connection in the naive reader's mind with "-190 % 12 == -10 is a bug waiting to bite" for easy comprehension. A potential fix to both these issues would be to say "if -190 % 12 were equal to -10 in Python (the way it is in most C programs), that would quite often be a bug waiting to happen in code using the % operator." ---------- nosy: +r.david.murray _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue31021> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
