Question

After looking at the various math, float, and decimal functions in Python, I haven’t found what I’m looking for. In my program, there may be instances when it will return a float and I need the float information so that I can do another function. Let’s say based on the user’s input the quotient we’re working with is 1.4, which I will represent as X.Y. How do I isolate Y so that I can use a FOR statement. (I need the program to do something 4 times in this case.) I’ve tried playing with the % function, but that returns the remainder, not the value I’m looking for. I’ve tried math.fmod and math.modf. Again not what I’m looking for. I looked at this example too.

Answer 1

Looks like int((x*10) % 10) will do it:

>>> x = 1.4
>>> int((x*10) % 10)
4