round off

[W. Vanweersch]

Hello,

The following looks strange to me in Python:
7/-3 gives -3

It looks like Python rounds off -2.33333 to -3! is this correct??
Isn't it -2?


Greets,

Wim.

[John Baxter]

In article <ma************************************@python.org >,
"W. Vanweersch" <n.**********@hccnet.nl> wrote:

Hello,

The following looks strange to me in Python:
7/-3 gives -3

It looks like Python rounds off -2.33333 to -3! is this correct??
Isn't it -2?

If you like, but not here. (It's really truncation, not rounding.)
It can be unexpected. It keeps this sort of thing working:

(-7 / 3)* 3 + (-7 % 3)

-7

Truncate / toward - infinity. If it truncated toward zero, then you
have to mess with the sign of the result of %, and other odd things
happen.

--John

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