In article <4a8704ca$0$2292$91cee...@newsreader02.highway.telekom.at>, Gregor Lingl <gregor.li...@aon.at> wrote:
> Christian Heimes schrieb: > > Roy Smith schrieb: > >> What's the best way to get the fractional part of a real? The two > >> ways I can see are r % 1 and r = int(r), but both seem a bit hokey. > >> Is there something more straight-forward that I'm missing, like > >> fraction(r)? > > > >>>> import math > >>>> math.modf(1.5) > > (0.5, 1.0) > > > > Christian > > Or without the need to import something: > > >>> divmod(1.5, 1) > (1.0, 0.5) > >>> > > Gregor Thanks. I knew I had to be missing something obvious. Regarding Mark Dickinson's question about what I want for negative reals, for the application I have in mind, r is guaranteed to be positive. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
