Thanks Alan,
I managed to get totally confused by the different definitions of
calculating a leap year. The book (Core Python)
described the exercise thus:
"Modulus. Determine whether a given year is a leap year, using the
following formula: a leap year is one that is divisible by four, but
not
"Terry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> I was using the "t1 == int(t1)" type compare, that I
> learned in BASIC about 25 years ago, to discover
> a remainder or no.
What a pity. Even the most elementary BASIC has
always had the MOD operator for finding remainders.
and a \ operator for integer d