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From: guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: standard extensions to programming languages
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Date: 4 Mar 91 13:04:12 GMT
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peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) quotes and replies:

>> when what I want is
>>         (q, r) = dividend divided by divisor
>
>Than you need a different programming language.

In Python you can write:

	(q, r) = divmod(dividend, divisor)

or even:

	q, r = divmod(dividend, divisor)

And Python isn't even stack-oriented!

--Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam <guido@cwi.nl>
"Oh Bevis!  And I thought you were so rugged!"