Translate into Python

A literal translation of our manual steps,

days = 200,000/(24*60*60) = 2
remainder = 200,000 - 2*(24*60*60) = 27,200
hours = 27,200/(60*60) = 7
remainder = 27,200 - 7x(60*60) = 2000
minutes = 2,000/60 = 33
seconds = 2,000 - 33*60 = 20

into Python might look like this:

tot_seconds = input("Enter the number of seconds: ")
days = tot_seconds / (24*60*60)
remainder = tot_seconds - days * (24*60*60)
hours = remainder / (60*60)
remainder = remainder - hours * (60*60)
minutes = remainder / 60
remainder = remainder - minutes*60
print tot_seconds, "seconds is", days, "days,"
print hours, "hours,", minutes, "minutes and"
print remainder, " seconds."

Notes:

• This is just the core of the program and the instructions are minimal, for now ...
• Note that the final value output is remainder, do you understand why?

As written (with the addition of — you already know this right? — interface and documentation) this program would run and calculate the answer correctly, but a couple of improvements are possible.