on writing a number as 2^s * q, where q is odd

[Dom Grigonis]

def powers_of_2_in(n):
    s = 0
    while n % 2 == 0:
        s += 1
        n = n // 2
    return s, n

> On 30 Nov 2023, at 02:44, Julieta Shem via Python-list <python-list at python.org> wrote:
> 
> How would you write this procedure?
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> def powers_of_2_in(n):
>  s = 0
>  while "I still find factors of 2 in n...":
>    q, r = divmod(n, 2)
>    if r == 0:
>      s = s + 1
>      n = n // 2
>    else:
>      return s, n
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
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