"Sion Arrowsmith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > 3/2 => 1 # Usual behavior | > some_func(3, 2) => 2 # Wanted | | def some_func(a, b): | return -(-a/b) | | And people complain about Python's behaviour regarding division of | negative integers.
Nice. This goes on my 'why didn't I think of that' list;-) I was thinking of the rather pedestrian d,r = divmod(a,b) if r: d+=1 tjr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list