The divmod() function in Python, takes two arguments and returns the quotient and remainder value in the form of tuple, after dividing the first argument's value by second. For example:

x = divmod(10, 5)
print(x)

x = divmod(100, 2.5)
print(x)

x = divmod(10, 3)
print(x)

The output would be:

(2, 0)
(40.0, 0.0)
(3, 1)

Python divmod() Function Syntax

The syntax of divmod() function in Python, is:

divmod(dividend, divisor)

Python divmod() Function Example

Here is an example demonstrating the divmod() function in Python. This program allows user to define the value of dividend and divisor, at run-time:

print("Enter the Dividend (Numerator): ", end="")
num = int(input())
print("Enter the Divisor (Denominator): ", end="")
den = int(input())

res = divmod(num, den)
print("\nQuotient =", res[0])
print("Remainder =", res[1])

The snapshot given below shows the sample run, with user input 20 as numerator and 6 as denominator:

Now the problem is, what if user wants to enter floating-point value for numerator and/or denominator ?
Therefore, we need to modify the above program in way to convert the input value to floating-point. This program also catches the exception raised while conversion using the try-except block, when user try to enter an input other than a number:

print("Enter the Dividend (Numerator): ", end="")
num = input()
print("Enter the Divisor (Denominator): ", end="")
den = input()

try:
    num = float(num)
    try:
        den = float(den)
        res = divmod(num, den)
        print("\nQuotient =", res[0])
        print("Remainder =", res[1])
    except ValueError:
        print("\nInvalid Denominator Value!")
except ValueError:
    print("\nInvalid Numerator Value!")

Here is its sample run with user input 10 as numerator and codescracker as denominator:

Here is another sample run with user input 21 and 1.5:

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