Re: Boolean result of divmod

From	Chris Torek <nospam@torek.net>
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Subject	Re: Boolean result of divmod
Date	21 Jun 2011 00:38:11 GMT
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In article <261fc85a-ca6b-4520-93ed-27e78bc217fc@y30g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>
Gnarlodious  <gnarlodious@gmail.com> wrote:
>What is the easiest way to get the first number as boolean?
>
>divmod(99.6, 30.1)

divmod returns a 2-tuple:

    >>> divmod(99.6,30.1)
    (3.0, 9.2999999999999901)

Therefore, you can subscript the return value to get either
element:

    >>> divmod(99.6,30.1)[0]
    3.0

Thus, you can call bool() on the subscripted value to convert
this to True-if-not-zero False-if-zero:

    >>> bool(divmod(99.6,30.1)[0])
    True
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Boolean result of divmod Gnarlodious <gnarlodious@gmail.com> - 2011-06-20 17:28 -0700
  Re: Boolean result of divmod Chris Torek <nospam@torek.net> - 2011-06-21 00:38 +0000
  Re: Boolean result of divmod MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2011-06-21 01:45 +0100
  Re: Boolean result of divmod Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-06-20 21:35 -0400

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