Re: Odd math related issue.

2008-07-21 Thread Dan Bishop
On Jul 21, 3:52 am, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Rawlins wrote: > > I’ve got what seems to me to be a totally illogical math issue here > > which I can’t figure out. Take a look at the following code: > > >         /self/.__logger.info(/"%i / %i"/ % (bytes_transferred, > > /sel

Re: Odd math related issue.

2008-07-21 Thread Fredrik Lundh
sahasranaman wrote: Use 2.0 / 3 * 100 to solve this. Why make things look bigger? you mean that a.0 / 3 * 100 works in your Python version? that's interesting. (maybe you should at least skim the the thread before you jump in?) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Odd math related issue.

2008-07-21 Thread sahasranaman
On Jul 21, 5:30 pm, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexandru Palade wrote: > > However, you should be carefully because using an %i modifier for a > > what-should-be a float value truncates the value in a way you may not > > expect. > > > What I mean is that if you have sent 2 out of 3

Re: Odd math related issue.

2008-07-21 Thread sahasranaman
On Jul 21, 5:30 pm, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexandru Palade wrote: > > However, you should be carefully because using an %i modifier for a > > what-should-be a float value truncates the value in a way you may not > > expect. > > > What I mean is that if you have sent 2 out of 3

Re: Odd math related issue.

2008-07-21 Thread John Machin
On Jul 21, 10:21 pm, Alexandru Palade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Another thing, you could have just added a dot after the constant in > order to promote the expression to be evaluated as float. As in > percentage = bytes_transferred / /self/.__sessions[path].total_bytes > * 100. > (notice t

Re: Odd math related issue.

2008-07-21 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Alexandru Palade wrote: However, you should be carefully because using an %i modifier for a what-should-be a float value truncates the value in a way you may not expect. What I mean is that if you have sent 2 out of 3 bytes, the math will be 200/3 which with the %i modifier will print 66, rathe

Re: Odd math related issue.

2008-07-21 Thread Alexandru Palade
However, you should be carefully because using an %i modifier for a what-should-be a float value truncates the value in a way you may not expect. What I mean is that if you have sent 2 out of 3 bytes, the math will be 200/3 which with the %i modifier will print 66, rather than 66.6 (or at least 6

RE: Odd math related issue.

2008-07-21 Thread Robert Rawlins
> if you divide two integers, you'll get an integer back (in Python 2.X, > at least). quick fix: > > percentage = bytes_transferred * 100 / total_bytes > > Hey That worked a charm mate, thanks for the info. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Odd math related issue.

2008-07-21 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Robert Rawlins wrote: I’ve got what seems to me to be a totally illogical math issue here which I can’t figure out. Take a look at the following code: /self/.__logger.info(/"%i / %i"/ % (bytes_transferred, /self/.__sessions[path].total_bytes)) percentage = bytes_transferred

Odd math related issue.

2008-07-21 Thread Robert Rawlins
Guys, I've got what seems to me to be a totally illogical math issue here which I can't figure out. Take a look at the following code: self.__logger.info("%i / %i" % (bytes_transferred, self.__sessions[path].total_bytes)) percentage = bytes_transferred / self.__sessions[pat