How to check if result is integer in Python? [duplicate]

Question

I have simple task to count number, for example:

a = 7
b = 9
result = 0

for _ in (0:100):
     result = a / b
     b += 1

How I can stop the for loop when result is an integer?

Checking if method is_integer() wasn't meet my expectations.

I have to use Python 2.6

Answer 1

Use % 1. Modular arithmetic returns the remainder, so if you try to divide by 1 and the remainder is 0, it must be an integer.

if result % 1 == 0:
    print "result is an integer!"

OR use the method mentioned in this post or this post:

if result.is_integer():

As mentioned in the comments, you can use:

while result % 1 != 0:

to make the loop repeat until you get an integer.