Version compatibility in division

[Duncan Grisby]

In article <loj77.544242$eK2.114179510 at news4.rdc1.on.home.com>,
 Nick Perkins <nperkins7 at home.com> wrote:

>I suppose the only cross-version solution would be:
>
>     # Script MUST run under various Python versions without change
>     ...
>     print int(container/widget) ,'widgets will fit in the container'
>
>It's a tiny bit verbose, but at least it's very explicit.

And also wrong in the face of negative divisors (although you probably
wouldn't have a negative number of widgets :-) ).

  >>> 5/-2
  -3
  >>> int(5.0/-2.0)
  -2

The "simple" solution is divmod(container, widget)[0]. Lovely.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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