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Re: Curious Omission In New-Style Formats

From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Curious Omission In New-Style Formats
Date 2016-07-13 23:49 +1000
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On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 11:16 PM, Jussi Piitulainen
<jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> wrote:
>> Or just use divmod:
>>
>>>>> "%d.%02d" % divmod(1<<200, 100)
>> '16069380442589902755419620923411626025222029937827928353013.76'
>
> I'm not quite ready to blame floating point for this difference yet:
>
>>>> "%d.%02d" % divmod(-1,100)
> '-1.99'
>>>> "%.2f" % (-1/100)
> '-0.01'

Ehhhh, forgot about that :D Negative numbers and modulo *always* trip
me up, because different languages have different rules. I inevitably
have to go check the docos.

ChrisA

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Curious Omission In New-Style Formats Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-07-09 22:54 -0700
  Re: Curious Omission In New-Style Formats Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-07-10 01:21 -0600
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            Re: Curious Omission In New-Style Formats Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2016-07-12 11:47 +1200
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                Re: Curious Omission In New-Style Formats Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-07-13 00:05 -0700
                Re: Curious Omission In New-Style Formats Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-13 18:49 +1000
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                Re: Curious Omission In New-Style Formats Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> - 2016-07-15 11:40 +0300
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                Re: Curious Omission In New-Style Formats Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2016-07-15 16:47 +0200
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