On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Scott W Dunning <swdunn...@cox.net> wrote: > On Feb 11, 2014, at 6:36 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> The real question is: What do you expect that symbol to mean? >> >> Its actual meaning is quite simple. In long division, dividing one >> number by another looks like this: > > Yeah I understand what the % means. It just confused me that 1%10 was 1. In > my thought process it just didn’t work. 1/10= .1 and I just didn’t see where > the remainder of 1 came in. >
Ah, yes. When Python 2 -> Python 3 changed the meaning of / the meaning of % got tied instead to //. But if you think about it, with the floating-point result you're describing there, it simply makes no sense to even ask what the remainder is. So, if you're going to use %, use //, and then it all makes sense. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
