What is the result of % in Python?

Question

What does the % in a calculation? I can\'t seem to work out what it does.

Does it work out a percent of the calculation for example: 4 % 2

Answer 1

Be aware that

(3 +2 + 1 - 5) + (4 % 2) - (1/4) + 6

even with the brackets results in 6.75 instead of 7 if calculated in Python 3.4.

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And the '/' operator is not that easy to understand, too (python2.7): try...

- 1/4

1 - 1/4

This is a bit off-topic here, but should be considered when evaluating the above expression :)