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Subject: Re: How to simulate C style integer division?
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On Thu, Jan 21, 2016, at 09:31, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Maybe:
> 
>    def intdiv(a, b):
>        return a // b if (a < 0) == (b < 0) else -(-a // b)

Personally, I like a // b + (a % b and a ^ b < 0) - I've done the
opposite in C to get python-style division.