The REALLY bad thing about Python lists ..

[Russell Wallace]

Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:
> 
> "Tim Peters" <tim_one at email.msn.com> writes:
> > ISO/ANSI C doesn't fully define what happens when (roughly) integer division
> > or % are handed negative numbers.
> 
> The foibles of standards commitees will never cease to amuse me.
> Thank you for this little tidbit.

Don't blame the C committee, blame the CPU manufacturers.  C doesn't
define the result because CPUs aren't consistent about what result they
give.

(Under what circumstances would you want to use % on negative numbers? 
I can't think of any.)

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