
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 …
What does the "at" (@) symbol do in Python? - Stack Overflow
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 …
Is there a "not equal" operator in Python? - Stack Overflow
Jun 16, 2012 · There's the != (not equal) operator that returns True when two values differ, though be careful with the types because "1" != 1. This will always return True and "1" == 1 will always return …
What is Python's equivalent of && (logical-and) in an if-statement?
Sep 13, 2023 · 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 …
python - Is there a difference between "==" and "is"? - Stack Overflow
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 …
python - What does the caret (^) operator do? - Stack Overflow
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 like …
Using 'or' in an 'if' statement (Python) - Stack Overflow
python if-statement conditional-statements boolean boolean-expression edited Oct 5, 2025 at 16:26 Peter Mortensen 31.2k 22 111 134
slice - How slicing in Python works - Stack Overflow
Python slicing is a computationally fast way to methodically access parts of your data. In my opinion, to be even an intermediate Python programmer, it's one aspect of the language that it is necessary to …
math - `/` vs `//` for division in Python - Stack Overflow
In Python 3.x, 5 / 2 will return 2.5 and 5 // 2 will return 2. The former is floating point division, and the latter is floor division, sometimes also called integer division. In Python 2.2 or later in the 2.x line, …
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 …