Boolean result of divmod
What is the easiest way to get the first number as boolean? divmod(99.6, 30.1) Or do I have to say: flote, rem=divmod(99.6, 30.1) bool(flote) -- Gnarlie -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Boolean result of divmod
In article <261fc85a-ca6b-4520-93ed-27e78bc21...@y30g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> Gnarlodious wrote: >What is the easiest way to get the first number as boolean? > >divmod(99.6, 30.1) divmod returns a 2-tuple: >>> divmod(99.6,30.1) (3.0, 9.2901) Therefore, you can subscript the return value to get either element: >>> divmod(99.6,30.1)[0] 3.0 Thus, you can call bool() on the subscripted value to convert this to True-if-not-zero False-if-zero: >>> bool(divmod(99.6,30.1)[0]) True -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Wind River Systems Salt Lake City, UT, USA (40°39.22'N, 111°50.29'W) +1 801 277 2603 email: gmail (figure it out) http://web.torek.net/torek/index.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Boolean result of divmod
On 21/06/2011 01:28, Gnarlodious wrote: What is the easiest way to get the first number as boolean? divmod(99.6, 30.1) Or do I have to say: flote, rem=divmod(99.6, 30.1) bool(flote) divmod returns a tuple, so: bool(divmod(99.6, 30.1)[0]) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Boolean result of divmod
On 6/20/2011 8:28 PM, Gnarlodious wrote: What is the easiest way to get the first number as boolean? divmod(99.6, 30.1) Or do I have to say: flote, rem=divmod(99.6, 30.1) bool(flote) divmod(x,y) == x//y, x%y so bool(x//y) -- Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list