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  1. What is the purpose of the single underscore "_" variable in Python?

    May 5, 2011 · As far as the Python languages is concerned, _ generally has no special meaning. It is a valid identifier just like _foo, foo_ or _f_o_o_. The only exception are match statements …

  2. What is the reason for having '//' in Python? [duplicate]

    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 / …

  3. 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 …

  4. What does asterisk * mean in Python? - Stack Overflow

    What does asterisk * mean in Python? [duplicate] Asked 16 years, 7 months ago Modified 1 year, 6 months ago Viewed 319k times

  5. 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 …

  6. 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]?

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

    Jun 16, 2012 · There are two operators in Python for the "not equal" condition - a.) != If values of the two operands are not equal, then the condition becomes true. (a != b) is true.

  8. 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 …

  9. 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 …

  10. 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 …

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