On Jul 21, 3:52 am, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Rawlins wrote: > > I’ve got what seems to me to be a totally illogical math issue here > > which I can’t figure out. Take a look at the following code: > > > /self/.__logger.info(/"%i / %i"/ % (bytes_transferred, > > /self/.__sessions[path].total_bytes)) > > > percentage = bytes_transferred / > > /self/.__sessions[path].total_bytes * 100 > > > /self/.__logger.info(/"%i"/ % percentage) > > > Seems fairly straight forward, you would think. It takes two values and > > calculates the percentage of one from the other, however, percentage > > always comes back as ‘0’ for some reason, look at this log output. > > if you divide two integers, you'll get an integer back (in Python 2.X, > at least). quick fix: > > percentage = bytes_transferred * 100 / total_bytes > > </F>
The most wonderful statement in the Python language is from __future__ import division -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
