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| From | Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Subject | Re: How to simulate C style integer division? |
| Date | 2016-01-21 10:59 +0200 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <lf5k2n3l34h.fsf@ling.helsinki.fi> (permalink) |
| References | <mailman.139.1453365561.15297.python-list@python.org> |
Shiyao Ma writes: > I wanna simulate C style integer division in Python3. > > So far what I've got is: > # a, b = 3, 4 > > import math > result = float(a) / b > if result > 0: > result = math.floor(result) > else: > result = math.ceil(result) > > I found it's too laborious. Any quick way? The general principle is to define a function when something is too laborious to do inline. def truncdiv(a, b): ... But math.trunc rounds towards 0. Maybe you want to use that here.
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How to simulate C style integer division? Shiyao Ma <i@introo.me> - 2016-01-21 16:39 +0800
Re: How to simulate C style integer division? "Peter Heitzer" <peter.heitzer@rz.uni-regensburg.de> - 2016-01-21 08:44 +0000
Re: How to simulate C style integer division? Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> - 2016-01-21 10:59 +0200
Re: How to simulate C style integer division? Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> - 2016-01-21 12:13 +0200
Re: How to simulate C style integer division? Grobu <snailcoder@retrosite.invalid> - 2016-01-22 02:59 +0100
Re: How to simulate C style integer division? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-01-22 14:48 +1100
Re: How to simulate C style integer division? Grobu <snailcoder@retrosite.invalid> - 2016-01-23 13:04 +0100
Re: How to simulate C style integer division? Grobu <snailcoder@retrosite.invalid> - 2016-01-23 13:52 +0100
Re: How to simulate C style integer division? Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> - 2016-01-23 17:07 +0200
Re: How to simulate C style integer division? Grobu <snailcoder@retrosite.invalid> - 2016-01-23 17:44 +0100
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