[PYTHON DOC-SIG] Bugs in documentation

[Christian Tismer]

Tomas Valusek wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm making a slow progress in reading docs, but I've found some bugs already.
> 
> General bug:
> In Library Reference, Chapter 2.1.4 are swapped descriptions of / and % operators. Quite fatal for unexperienced ...

Maybe you got mislead by the notation here

x / y
quotient of x and y --- (1)
x % y
remainder of x / y

because x / y on integers really truncates to an integer, and
x % y is the remainder of that? 

- chris

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