Re: Help printing the integers of a longer number

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Date	2013-03-29 04:17 +1100
Subject	Re: Help printing the integers of a longer number
From	Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 4:03 AM, Jussi Piitulainen
<jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> wrote:
> def print_digits(num):
>    left, last = divmod(num, 10)
>    if left < 0: print the digits of left
>    print(last)
>
> How do you print the digits of left? With print_digits. Why does it
> work? Because you only call print_digits again when left is closer to
> zero than num.
>
> It's called recursion.

An elegant solution, but buggy, I'm afraid... fortunately it's a
trivial problem. The comparison should be left>0. :)

ChrisA

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Help printing the integers of a longer number khaosyt@gmail.com - 2013-03-28 07:39 -0700
  Re: Help printing the integers of a longer number Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-03-29 01:48 +1100
  Re: Help printing the integers of a longer number Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-03-28 10:48 -0400
  Re: Help printing the integers of a longer number Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2013-03-28 19:03 +0200
    Re: Help printing the integers of a longer number Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2013-03-28 19:11 +0200
      Re: Help printing the integers of a longer number Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-03-29 04:19 +1100
    Re: Help printing the integers of a longer number Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-03-29 04:17 +1100

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