[Python-Dev] Floor division

[Tim Peters]

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[Tim]
>> fractional part of x == fmod(x, 1.0) == modf(x)[0], so you could use
>> either.

[Anders J. Munch]
> Actually, on the off chance that time.time() is negative, he can use
> neither.  It has to be math.ceil, float.__mod__ or divmod.

If time.time() is negative, I expect this would be the least of his worries :-)

Even on most Unixish boxes, Python's time.time() is immune to "the
year 2038 problem" anyway, since it uses POSIX's gettimeofday()
instead of C's time() when it can.