Also, can any of you reccommend sites that may have little “projects” that I could work on to help me learn python better?
On Jan 31, 2014, at 1:30 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Gregory Ewing > <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: >> sjud9227 wrote: >>> >>> Doesn't >>> assigning seconds/(60*60) mean that calculating 6*hours will give me 6 >>> hours >>> in seconds? >> >> No, it's giving you 6 seconds in hours. (That should >> give you a clue as to what you should have done >> instead. :-) >> >> ... >> >> a // b gives the quotient of dividing a by b >> >> a % b gives the remainder >> >> (I recommend using '//' rather than just '/', because >> in some versions of Python, a/b does floating point >> division even if a and b are both integers, and that's >> not what you want here.) > > OP is using 2.7.6, so short of a __future__ directive, that won't > actually give 6 seconds in hours (though it will try to), and // is > unnecessary. > > ChrisA > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
