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Re: How to simulate C style integer division?

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Shiyao Ma <i@introo.me> writes:

> I wanna simulate C style integer division in Python3.

I'm not sure I know exactly what behaviour you want (“C style” may mean
different things to each of us).

I'll point out that Python's ‘//’ operator specifies floor division
<URL:https://docs.python.org/3/reference/expressions.html#binary-arithmetic-operations>.

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Re: How to simulate C style integer division? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-01-21 20:11 +1100
  Re: How to simulate C style integer division? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-01-21 01:43 -0800
    Re: How to simulate C style integer division? Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> - 2016-01-21 11:58 +0200
  Re: How to simulate C style integer division? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-01-21 23:42 +1100
    Re: How to simulate C style integer division? Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> - 2016-01-21 16:00 +0200
      Re: How to simulate C style integer division? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-01-21 16:31 +0200
        Re: How to simulate C style integer division? Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> - 2016-01-21 16:48 +0200
        Re: How to simulate C style integer division? Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-01-21 14:52 -0500
          Re: How to simulate C style integer division? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-01-21 23:17 +0200
            Re: How to simulate C style integer division? Matt Wheeler <m@funkyhat.org> - 2016-01-22 00:51 +0000
      Re: How to simulate C style integer division? Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> - 2016-01-21 15:22 +0100

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