Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com>: > On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 1:34 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> if you're going to move to Python 3, you may as well have your code >> start working that way, so you get used to typing // to divide >> integers and get an integer (floor division). > > [...] > > We also gained a consistent and explicit way to differentiate between > the two different styles of division that classic division > represented, as opposed to picking at run-time based on type.
Very often when integer division is needed, so is the remainder. Then, it is good to remember the builtin divmod() function: https://docs.python.org/3.4/library/functions.html#divmod In fact, divmod() goes a long way toward removing the need for // and % in Python code. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
