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Re: Help printing the integers of a longer number

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khaosyt@gmail.com writes:

> I want to print the individual numbers of a large number using
> division and modulus division.
> 
> For example:
> 
> Enter a positive integer: 54321
> 5
> 4
> 3
> 2
> 1

Those numbers are called the digits of the large number.

With divmod(54321, 10) you get both the number that is "left" after
removing the last digit, and the last digit:

>>> left, last = divmod(54321, 10)
>>> left
5432
>>> last
1

Define a function, print_digits(num), that prints the digits of the
non-negative integer num. Zero turns out fine so let's allow zero:

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.

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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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