Integer division

Sion Arrowsmith siona at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Thu Jun 7 07:18:26 EDT 2007


jm.suresh at no.spam.gmail.com <jm.suresh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 3/2 => 1 # Usual behavior
> some_func(3, 2) => 2 # Wanted

def some_func(a, b):
    return -(-a/b)

And people complain about Python's behaviour regarding division of
negative integers.

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