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  1. python - What exactly does += do? - Stack Overflow

    Jan 30, 2011 · I need to know what += does in Python. It's that simple. I also would appreciate links to definitions of other shorthand tools in Python.

  2. Using or in if statement (Python) - Stack Overflow

    Using or in if statement (Python) [duplicate] Asked 7 years, 6 months ago Modified 8 months ago Viewed 149k times

  3. What does colon equal (:=) in Python mean? - Stack Overflow

    Mar 21, 2023 · In Python this is simply =. To translate this pseudocode into Python you would need to know the data structures being referenced, and a bit more of the algorithm implementation. Some notes about psuedocode: := is the assignment operator or = in Python = is the equality operator or == in Python There are certain styles, and your mileage may vary:

  4. Is there a "not equal" operator in Python? - Stack Overflow

    Jun 16, 2012 · 1 You can use the != operator to check for inequality. Moreover in Python 2 there was <> operator which used to do the same thing, but it has been deprecated in Python 3.

  5. What is Python's equivalent of && (logical-and) in an if-statement?

    Mar 21, 2010 · There is no bitwise negation in Python (just the bitwise inverse operator ~ - but that is not equivalent to not). See also 6.6. Unary arithmetic and bitwise/binary operations and 6.7. Binary arithmetic operations. The logical operators (like in many other languages) have the advantage that these are short-circuited.

  6. What does the "at" (@) symbol do in Python? - Stack Overflow

    Jun 17, 2011 · 96 What does the “at” (@) symbol do in Python? @ symbol is a syntactic sugar python provides to utilize decorator, to paraphrase the question, It's exactly about what does decorator do in Python? Put it simple decorator allow you to modify a given function's definition without touch its innermost (it's closure).

  7. python - What is the purpose of the -m switch? - Stack Overflow

    Python 2.4 adds the command line switch -m to allow modules to be located using the Python module namespace for execution as scripts. The motivating examples were standard library modules such as pdb and profile, and the Python 2.4 implementation is …

  8. python - What does ** (double star/asterisk) and * (star/asterisk) …

    Aug 31, 2008 · Python 2 compatible demos *args (typically said "star-args") and **kwargs (stars can be implied by saying "kwargs", but be explicit with "double-star kwargs") are common idioms of Python for using the * and ** notation.

  9. python - Is there a difference between "==" and "is"? - Stack …

    Since is for comparing objects and since in Python 3+ every variable such as string interpret as an object, let's see what happened in above paragraphs. In python there is id function that shows a unique constant of an object during its lifetime. This id is using in back-end of Python interpreter to compare two objects using is keyword.

  10. syntax - What do >> and << mean in Python? - Stack Overflow

    Apr 3, 2014 · 15 The other case involving print >>obj, "Hello World" is the "print chevron" syntax for the print statement in Python 2 (removed in Python 3, replaced by the file argument of the print() function). Instead of writing to standard output, the output is passed to the obj.write() method. A typical example would be file objects having a write() method.