On 07/11/05, john boy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey can somebody tell me what the "%" function does...I am not math > illiterate...its just a new symbol for me....is it a divisor? remainder > something another??
For numeric values, it's the modulo operator - see <http://docs.python.org/ref/binary.html> and <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_arithmetic>. Over strings, '%' performs string formatting. See <http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq-strings.html>. -- Cheers, Simon B, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
