Re: Help with some python homework...

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On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Gregory Ewing
<greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> sjud9227 wrote:
>>
>> Doesn't
>> assigning seconds/(60*60) mean that calculating 6*hours will give me 6
>> hours
>> in seconds?
>
> No, it's giving you 6 seconds in hours. (That should
> give you a clue as to what you should have done
> instead. :-)
>
> ...
>
>    a // b gives the quotient of dividing a by b
>
>    a % b gives the remainder
>
> (I recommend using '//' rather than just '/', because
> in some versions of Python, a/b does floating point
> division even if a and b are both integers, and that's
> not what you want here.)

OP is using 2.7.6, so short of a __future__ directive, that won't
actually give 6 seconds in hours (though it will try to), and // is
unnecessary.

ChrisA

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Help with some python homework... scottwd80@gmail.com - 2014-01-30 21:12 -0800
  Re: Help with some python homework... Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-31 16:30 +1100
    Re: Help with some python homework... sjud9227 <scottwd80@gmail.com> - 2014-01-30 22:24 -0800
      Re: Help with some python homework... Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-31 17:38 +1100
        Re: Help with some python homework... sjud9227 <scottwd80@gmail.com> - 2014-01-30 22:48 -0800
      Re: Help with some python homework... Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2014-01-31 21:17 +1300
        Re: Help with some python homework... Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-31 19:30 +1100
          Re: Help with some python homework... Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2014-01-31 23:46 +1300
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