Paul Rubin:
> If you want to peel off digits from an int one by one without string
> conversions, it's easiest to do that in reverse order:
>
> n = 961
> digits = []
> while n > 0:
> n,d = divmod(n, 10)
> digits.append(d)
>
> Look up the docs for "divmod" for an explanation of that handy function.
> Now the above gives you a reversed list of digits--what to do with it
> is an exercise for you ;-). Note that if n=0 then you get the empty list.
I think that with Psyco it's better to avoid divmod().
It's very positive to teach novices to always use tests every time
they write a function, because it makes their programs less buggy and
often allows them to solve the whole programming problem sooner:
def reverse(n):
"""
Reverse the digits of integer n, ignoring trailing zeros.
>>> reverse(12590)
9521
>>> reverse("abc")
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for divmod(): 'str' and
'int'
>>> [reverse(x) for x in (0, 1, -1, 2, -2L, 100L, -100)]
[0, 1, -1, 2, -2L, 1L, -1]
>>> [reverse(x) for x in (125, 1250, 123456789)]
[521, 521, 987654321]
>>> [reverse(x) for x in (0.0, 1.0, -5.3, 125.0, 1.23456e20)]
[0, 1.0, -5.2999999999999998, 521.0, 654321.0]
>>> str(reverse(169883903200298309284038223098439430943092816286
** 123))[:35]
'65852401624276201339740994895755844'
"""
# code removed ...
if __name__ == "__main__":
import doctest
doctest.testmod()
print "Doctests done"
Using tests (and a bit later to use a versioning system) is among the
things that have to be taught as soon as possible :-)
Bye,
bearophile
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