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| Subject | Re: Help with some python homework... |
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| From | Scott W Dunning <swdunning@cox.net> |
| Date | 2014-01-31 17:46 -0700 |
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Also, can any of you reccommend sites that may have little “projects” that I could work on to help me learn python better? On Jan 31, 2014, at 1:30 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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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
Re: Help with some python homework... Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-01 11:57 +1100
Re: Help with some python homework... Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-01 12:34 +1100
Re: Help with some python homework... David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2014-02-01 14:17 +1100
Re: Help with some python homework... Scott W Dunning <swdunning@cox.net> - 2014-01-31 18:14 -0700
Re: Help with some python homework... Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-02-01 19:32 +0000
Re: Help with some python homework... David Hutto <dwightdhutto@gmail.com> - 2014-02-02 17:12 -0800
Re: Help with some python homework... Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-02 23:48 -0800
Re: Help with some python homework... Scott W Dunning <swdunning@cox.net> - 2014-01-31 17:46 -0700
Re: Help with some python homework... Scott W Dunning <swdunning@cox.net> - 2014-01-31 17:42 -0700
Re: Help with some python homework... David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2014-02-01 17:13 +1100
Re: Help with some python homework... Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-02-01 10:44 -0500
Re: Help with some python homework... Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2014-01-31 13:51 +0000
Re: Help with some python homework... Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-02-01 03:02 +0000
Re: Help with some python homework... Scott W Dunning <swdunning@cox.net> - 2014-01-31 17:35 -0700
Re: Help with some python homework... Scott W Dunning <swdunning@cox.net> - 2014-01-31 22:18 -0700
Re: Help with some python homework... Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-02-01 19:45 +0000
Re: Help with some python homework... David Hutto <dwightdhutto@gmail.com> - 2014-02-02 08:11 -0800
Re: Help with some python homework... David Hutto <dwightdhutto@gmail.com> - 2014-02-02 08:36 -0800
Re: Help with some python homework... MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-02-02 16:38 +0000
Re: Help with some python homework... David Hutto <dwightdhutto@gmail.com> - 2014-02-02 08:57 -0800
Re: Help with some python homework... Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-02-02 17:43 +0000
Re: Help with some python homework... David Hutto <dwightdhutto@gmail.com> - 2014-02-02 10:09 -0800
Re: Help with some python homework... David Hutto <dwightdhutto@gmail.com> - 2014-02-02 11:08 -0800
Re: Help with some python homework... David Hutto <dwightdhutto@gmail.com> - 2014-02-02 11:21 -0800
Re: Help with some python homework... "Rhodri James" <rhodri@wildebst.org.uk> - 2014-02-02 17:15 +0000
Re: Help with some python homework... Scott W Dunning <swdunning@cox.net> - 2014-01-31 22:04 -0700
Re: Help with some python homework... Scott W Dunning <swdunning@cox.net> - 2014-01-31 17:07 -0700
Re: Help with some python homework... Scott W Dunning <swdunning@cox.net> - 2014-01-31 22:19 -0700
Re: Help with some python homework... Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-02-01 10:50 -0500
Re: Help with some python homework... Scott W Dunning <swdunning@cox.net> - 2014-02-01 23:06 -0700
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