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

    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 …

  2. 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 …

  3. python - What does the caret (^) operator do? - Stack Overflow

    Dec 14, 2021 · 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 …

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

    Using or in if statement (Python) [duplicate] Asked 7 years, 4 months ago Modified 7 months ago Viewed 146k times

  5. math - `/` vs `//` for division in Python - Stack Overflow

    Aug 23, 2024 · 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 …

  6. 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 …

  7. What is :: (double colon) in Python when subscripting sequences?

    I know that I can use something like string[3:4] to get a substring in Python, but what does the 3 mean in somesequence[::3]?

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

    According to the previous answers: It seems python performs caching on small integer and strings which means that it utilizes the same object reference for 'hello' string occurrences in this code …

  9. What does the ** maths operator do in Python? - Stack Overflow

    From the Python 3 docs: The power operator has the same semantics as the built-in pow () function, when called with two arguments: it yields its left argument raised to the power of its …

  10. python - Iterating over dictionaries using 'for' loops - Stack Overflow

    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 …