[Python-ideas] integer dividion in R -- PS

[Nick Coghlan]

Xavier Ho wrote:
>     Personally, I've always liked Python's behaviour in this regard:  for
>     the few times that I've needed an 'x % y' operation that works with
>     both positive and negative x, more often than not x-y*floor(x/y) turns
>     out to be what I need.  I've lost count of the number times I've had
>     to write something awkward like:
> 
>            /* adjust for the exponent;  first reduce it modulo
>     _PyHASH_BITS */
>            e = e >= 0 ? e % _PyHASH_BITS : _PyHASH_BITS-1-((-1-e) %
>     _PyHASH_BITS);
> 
>     in C.
>  
> Wow. I would never write code like that, but you got a fair point.

For Python, Mark (and others) write code like that so the rest of us
don't have to ;)

Cheers,
Nick.

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