[Python-3000] what do I use in place of reduce?

[Marcin ‘Qrczak’ Kowalczyk]

Dnia 24-04-2008, czw o godzinie 07:40 +0200, "Martin v. Löwis" pisze:

> In this case, I wouldn't use a loop at all:
> 
> py> time=1901248
> py> minutes,seconds = divmod(time, 60)
> py> hours,minutes = divmod(minutes, 60)
> py> days,hours = divmod(hours,24)
> py> seconds,minutes,hours,days
> (28, 7, 0, 22)

divmod could be extended to more arguments:

days, hours, minutes, seconds = divmod(time, 24, 60, 60)

def divmod(x, d, *ds):
   if ds:
      q, *rs = divmod(x, *ds)
      q1, r1 = divmod2(q, d)
      return q1, r1, *rs
   else:
      return divmod2(x, d)

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