Oct 8, 2009 · In Python 3, they made the / operator do a floating-point division, and added the // operator to do integer division (i.e., quotient without remainder); whereas in Python 2, the / …

Aug 10, 2010 · 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]?

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 …

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.

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 …

Sep 28, 2009 · Python is not C or C++. Different design decisions went into making the language. In particular, Python deliberately does not define assignment operators that can be used in an …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …