[Pyrex] Mod operator in python and pyrex

[Robert Kern]

stephen at theboulets.net wrote:
> I am getting this message in a pyrex module:
> 
> "Invalid operand types for '%' (float; double)"
> 
> The line of code is:
> 
> "rotorthetanow = rotortheta %(2.*pi)"
> 
> All three variables are floats.
> 
> Does the mod operator work in python for floats but not in pyrex?

Correct. % doesn't work for floats in C, so when Pyrex is told to do % on cdef
float or double variables, it raises an error.

> Any
> workaround? Thanks.

cdef extern from "math.h":
    double fmod(double x, double y)

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Robert Kern

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