It's the modulus operator. It returns the remainder of integer division. As we used to say in second grade:
4 goes into 107 26 times with 3 left over.
3 goes into 4 2 times with 1 left over.
How long were you stuck in second grade, Grant? <grin>
-Peter
P.S. You're correct, for large values of four.... ;-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
