[Python-Dev] Floor division (original) (raw)

Armin Rigo arigo at tunes.org
Sat Jan 20 12:29:34 CET 2007

Hi Tim,

On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 08:33:23PM -0500, Tim Peters wrote:

>>> decimal.Decimal(-1) % decimal.Decimal("1e100") Decimal("-1")

BTW - isn't that case in contradiction with the general Python rule that if b > 0, then a % b should return a number between 0 included and b excluded? We try hard to do that for ints, longs and floats. The fact that it works differently with Decimal could be unexpected.

A bientot,

Armin

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