Re: [Pymoney-general] Currency's distrib() method

[Darek S. <ds...@ti...>]

Facundo Batista wrote:

> 1. Returning the different currencies, splitting almost equally::
> 
>     >>> Currency(1).distrib(3)
>     [Currency("0.33"), Currency("0.33"), Currency("0.34")]
>     >>> Currency(1).distrib(7)
>     [Currency("0.14"), Currency("0.14"), Currency("0.14"),
> Currency("0.14"), Currency("0.15"), Currency("0.15"),
> Currency("0.14")]

> 2. Returning the almost exact part, with the rest (a kind of divmod()
> but not to integers)::
> 
>     >>> Currency(1).distrib(3)
>     (Currency("0.33"), Currency("0.01"))
>     >>> Currency(1).distrib(7)
>     (Currency("0.14"), Currency("0.02"))

> 3. Returning the different currencies, splitting differently::
> 
>     >>> Currency(1).distrib([1,2])
>     [Currency("0.33"), Currency("0.67")]
>     >>> Currency(3).distrib([2,1,3,3])
>     [Currency("0.66"), Currency("0.33"), Currency("1.01"), Currency("1.00")]

> 
> What do you think?

Is it possible to have a combination of 1) and 3), with 1) being
a special case of 3)? That is, something along the lines of:

def distrib(self,nparts=None,proportions=None):
     if nparts:
         return self._real_distrib([1] * nparts)
     return self._real_distrib(proportions)

darek