"William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 5/26/07, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On May 26, 2007, at 8:19 AM, Pablo De Napoli wrote: >> > in standard iPython: >> > >> > In [1]: divmod(2,3) >> > Out[1]: (0, 2) >> > >> > Would it better to use the standard name divmod for this operator [by >> > defining a method __divmod__] (or other operators >> > already defined in python) when possible? >> >> I think this would be a good idea. I don't know if there's any reason >> we're not doing so yet... > > The reason is that none of use knew about __divmod__ for some reason... > at least I didn't. That's the only reason.
I seem to recall that Python's __divmod__ semantics are not mathematically friendly, but maybe that is just C's semantics? Perhaps someone who knows more should clarify? Nick --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
