Radians vs. Degrees

[William Park]

Jef <plungermonkey at cox.net> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
>   I'm new to this NG so please bear with me :-) I'm writing an addon 
> for the Quake2 editor named QuArK and could use some advice from the 
> math/coding gurus out there.
> 
>   My problem is that I'm trying to create a torus (donut) and the C 
> code I'm looking at uses DTOR to convert degrees to radians and I see no 
> mention of it (DTOR) in Python. My question is whether I need this in 
> Python

Yes, everything is in radian.

> or does Python automatically convert to radians during calculations?

No, you have to do that yourself...  rad/pi = deg/180

> Also, do the FOR loops work the same as in C++ (e.g.  FOR(x=0, x<360,
> x++))?  If not, any suggestions on how to do this?

In Python, it would go like
    for i in range(360):
	...

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