mod, modulo and % under 2.4 and 2.5

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W. eWatson wrote:
> About a year ago, I wrote a program that used mod() for modulo under
> 2.5. Apparently, % is also acceptable, but the program works quite
> well. I turned the program over to someone who is using 2.4, and
> apparently 2.4 knows nothing about mod(). Out of curiosity, what
> library is mod(a,b)(two args) in? It doesn't seem to be in numpy. It
> seems to be built-in. If so, why isn't it both 2.4 and 2.5?

mod() not is a built-in.

It is, however, in the 'operator' module, and also as __mod__() in that
same module. Both are equivalent to '%'.

It has been there since at least Python v2.0.

As for why something might not be in an earlier version, well, that
would be because it hadn't been added yet! :-)