Negative division bug?

[Michael Yanowitz]

Hello:

Just wondering if this is a bug, is this as designed,
or do I have to import math or something to make it correct:

I was just screwing around.
and found:-1
Shouldn't it be zero?
1/100 returns 0
but -1/ANY_POSITIVE_INTEGER_NUMBER
returns -1
-4

It behaves correct for positive numbers, but for negative
integers it seems to subtract one from the expected result.


Thanks in advance:
Michael Yanowitz

 

[casevh]

I was just screwing around.

and found:
-1
Shouldn't it be zero?
1/100 returns 0
but -1/ANY_POSITIVE_INTEGER_NUMBER
returns -1

-4

It behaves correct for positive numbers, but for negative
integers it seems to subtract one from the expected result.

That is the intended behavior. Look at the output of divmod().
(-1,99)

Let (q,r) = divmod(d, v) with v > 0, the behavior is chosen so that 0<=
r < v.

casevh