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

It's a modulo operation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulo_operation

http://docs.python.org/reference/expressions.html

So with order of operations, that works out to

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

(1) + (0) - (0) + 6

7

The 1/4=0 because we're doing integer math here.