[reportlab-users] HexColor()

[Lalo Martins]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 05:50:07PM -0300, Lalo Martins wrote:
> 
> > >            w = l/4
> > 
> > Unless you use "from __future__ import division" this will mean
> > that w == 0 since len returns an int. int/int => int.
> 
> Yes.  This pretty much renders the whole thing unusable :-P my code uses
> "from __future__ import division" - I must have forgot to paste it.

No, I was wrong here.  I realy intended this to be integer division and it
will *not* return 0, unless l < 4 (which is invalid):

>>> 4 / 4
1
>>> 5 / 4
1
>>> 6 / 4
1
>>> 7 / 4
1
>>> 8 / 4
2

This is exactly the intended behaviour, so the last posted source code stands.

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