Eli Zabielski wrote: > Checking if a number is prime by deviding it by possible factors. If any > outcome is an integer, and it is not 1 or itself, it is prime.
A better way to check for divisibility is to use the modulo operator % which gives the remainder when one number is divided by another. If a % b == 0 then b is a factor of a. Kent > > On 12/5/06, *Kent Johnson * <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > wrote: > > Eli Zabielski wrote: > > How can I check if a variable is an integer? > > Luke and John have answered your question, but we should also ask, why > do you want to do that? Explicit type testing is a code smell, perhaps > there is a better way to do what you want. > > Kent > > > > > -- > Eli Zabielski _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
