Side note, seeing as Python defines this as an xor operation and the method name has "xor" in it, I would consider it a poor design choice to make that method do something not related to xor …

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 …

Jan 17, 2013 · In Python 3.5 though, PEP 484 -- Type Hints attaches a single meaning to this: -> is used to indicate the type that the function returns. It also seems like this will be enforced in …

In Python, you deal with data in an abstract way and seldom increment through indices and such. The closest-in-spirit thing to ++ is the next method of iterators.

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 …

In a comment on this question, I saw a statement that recommended using result is not None vs result != None What is the difference? And why might one be recommended over the other?

Mar 20, 2013 · Working on a python assignment and was curious as to what [:-1] means in the context of the following code: instructions = f.readline()[:-1] Have searched on here on S.O. …

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 …

Feb 25, 2012 · I'm wondering if there's any difference between the code fragment from urllib import request and the fragment import urllib.request or if they are interchangeable. If they are …

Jul 21, 2010 · Why is it 'better' to use my_dict.keys() over iterating directly over the dictionary? Iteration over a dictionary is clearly documented as yielding keys. It appears you had Python 2 …