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Old 22nd December 2019
victorvas victorvas is offline
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Default Python 3 strange behavior

Hello! I've got a strange situation with python 3.8 where
Code:
>>> -10 % 3
2
-10 % 3 returns 2 instead of 1. Is this a bug?
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Old 22nd December 2019
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Python 2 or 3, it's normal. When dividing, positive numbers round towards zero while negative numbers round away from zero:
Code:
>>> 10 // 3
3
>>> -10 // 3
-4
Resulting in the numbers you've been getting since 10/3=3.33333333333 and 10-3*3=1 while -10/3=-3.33333333333 and -10-(-4*3)=2.

Perl does the same:
Code:
print 10 % 3;
1
print -10 % 3;
2
Check this blog post to see Guido van Rossum's explanation.

If you need the more usual Euclidean division method you've been used to since school (also used in C), use math.fmod instead of the % operator:
Code:
>>> import math
>>> math.fmod(10,3)
1.0
>>> math.fmod(-10,3)
-1.0
As you can also notice, now the sign follows the dividend while it followed the divisor when using the % operator.
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