Yeah, but the point is to make the list exactly divisible, is there a better way to do this? I'm then taking the number of fields and dividing them by four, then outputting that number of items in each column.
> The 'simple fix', to remove 'not' from the statement works because of > how modulo works, which works like this: > > >>> 10 % 4 > 2 > > The modulo returns the /remainder/. It will not be a float. > > Let's see how this evaluates:: > > >>> if 10 % 4: > ... print "true" > ... > true > > If the modulo returns anything other than 0, it will evaluate to True. > In python any integer other than 0 evaluates to True. You are treating > modulo like it is an operation to find out if the second number goes > into the first number an even amount of times. That's why removing the > 'not' is the 'simple fix'. > > So if there isn't enough fields for 4 columns, say 11, 11 % 4 will > evaluate to true. Add one more, and 12 % 4 will evaluate to false. > > The 'good fix' is set up to do the logic all at once. Because modulo > returns an integer, you can just set the number of blank fields to the > number that modulo returns. > > Hopefully that helps! > > > Jeff Anderson > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
