On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 6:29 AM, Eelco <hoogendoorn.ee...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Dec 14, 1:38 pm, Steven D'Aprano <steve > +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 02:09:32 -0800, Eelco wrote: >> > Arguably, the most elegant thing to do is to define integer division and >> > remainder as a single operation; which is not only the logical thing to >> > do mathematically, but might work really well programmatically too. >> >> > The semantics of python dont really allow for this though. One could >> > have: >> >> > d, r = a // b >> >> That would be: >> >> >>> divmod(17, 5) >> >> (3, 2) > > Cool; if only it were in the math module id be totally happy.
Probably it's not in math because it's not a thin wrapper around a C math library function, which is how the module was conceived. There are already some exceptions in the math module, but I think they are all newer than divmod. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
