Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulai...@helsinki.fi>: > Steven D'Aprano writes: > >> So my guess is that the fastest, and certainly the most obvious, way >> to get the same integer division behaviour as C99 would be: >> >> def intdiv(a, b): >> # C99 style integer division with truncation towards zero. >> n = a//b >> if (a < 0) != (b < 0): >> n += 1 >> return n > > You should only increment if there is a (non-zero) remainder.
Maybe: def intdiv(a, b): return a // b if (a < 0) == (b < 0) else -(-a // b) Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list