getting the fractional part of a real?

[Gregor Lingl]

Christian Heimes schrieb:
> Roy Smith schrieb:
>> What's the best way to get the fractional part of a real?  The two 
>> ways I can see are r % 1 and r = int(r), but both seem a bit hokey.  
>> Is there something more straight-forward that I'm missing, like 
>> fraction(r)?
> 
>>>> import math
>>>> math.modf(1.5)
> (0.5, 1.0)
> 
> Christian

Or without the need to import something:

 >>> divmod(1.5, 1)
(1.0, 0.5)
 >>>

Gregor