[Tutor] Calculating Deflection angles

[Alan Gauld]

"nitin chandra" <nitinchandra1 at gmail.com> wrote

> I create a list of coordinates of 2 lines.
> X11,Y11 & X12,Y12 as starting and ending of one line.
> X21,Y21 & X22, Y22 as starting and ending of the 2nd line.
>
> Now is there any way to calculate the deflection angle between the 
> two
> lines? Will any modules be required other than Python 2.3 (on 
> Linux)?

This is a standard math problem to which you can apply the
standard math techniques. You can use the trigonometry
functions found in the math module.

HTH,

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