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What is the easiest way to get the first number as boolean?

divmod(99.6, 30.1)

Or do I have to say:

flote, rem=divmod(99.6, 30.1)
bool(flote)

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In article <261fc85a-ca6b-4520-93ed->
Gnarlodious <> wrote:
>What is the easiest way to get the first number as boolean?
>
>divmod(99.6, 30.1)

divmod returns a 2-tuple:

>>> divmod(99.6,30.1)
(3.0, 9.2999999999999901)

Therefore, you can subscript the return value to get either
element:

>>> divmod(99.6,30.1)[0]
3.0

Thus, you can call bool() on the subscripted value to convert
this to True-if-not-zero False-if-zero:

>>> bool(divmod(99.6,30.1)[0])
True
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On 21/06/2011 01:28, Gnarlodious wrote:
> What is the easiest way to get the first number as boolean?
>
> divmod(99.6, 30.1)
>
> Or do I have to say:
>
> flote, rem=divmod(99.6, 30.1)
> bool(flote)
>
divmod returns a tuple, so:

bool(divmod(99.6, 30.1)[0])

On 6/20/2011 8:28 PM, Gnarlodious wrote:
> What is the easiest way to get the first number as boolean?
>
> divmod(99.6, 30.1)
>
> Or do I have to say:
>
> flote, rem=divmod(99.6, 30.1)
> bool(flote)

divmod(x,y) == x//y, x%y

so bool(x//y)

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Terry Jan Reedy